If one must post with a title like this one, well that it be right after one with the last title. It’s howling here although I’ve got a good lee from the wind blowing right off the fairly high shore. I just talked to the guys bringing in the crabs and oysters for the restaurant tonight (they try for same day serving whenever possible) and they said it is nasty. Forecasts are for gusts over 30 and I can believe when they said they think they saw some up to 40.
Worst of all, the wind is blowing so hard that the tide is hours late turning. It has hardly come up a bit. That means there is a several foot difference in water level between here and the ocean about eight miles away. When the level down their gets high enough to push through against the wind or the wind eases just a bit, a spectacular current is going to be running right against what will still be a very stiff wind in shallow water. It is going to go from very nasty to worse.
So, I may be condemned to another night here and I guess I will just have to go up to the restaurant again and eat some of the same critters I just saw in the bottom of the skiff. Probably oysters this time. Life on the waterway has its hardships.
The SPOT watchers here will see me going north again when the wind eases. No, I’m not turning around. I’m on call to the company that bought my business if an interesting project comes up and one has. Air connections are much easier from Charleston than farther south, no connections necessary which can be a nightmare in the winter. I’m going to move back within rental car reach of the airport until I find out the meeting schedule, if any.
This will also put me in Beaufort for New Years which the town does well and which Lee and Lynn enjoyed a lot last year. I’d moved down to Bull Creek for the night just not feeling in the mood at the time. This year, it feels appealing for some reason.
I’ve been asking around and my best options for a mechanic to do the head and valve adjustment on the engine are in that area as well. I also think it will be nice to break the sort of linear, “down and back” mindset. Maybe some back and forth travel will get me in a more, “Here I am in home waters.”, cruising mind set.
I’ll have mail waiting in Saint Marys so I’m still committed to traveling through Georgia and you can anticipate reports from the south later on.
Worst of all, the wind is blowing so hard that the tide is hours late turning. It has hardly come up a bit. That means there is a several foot difference in water level between here and the ocean about eight miles away. When the level down their gets high enough to push through against the wind or the wind eases just a bit, a spectacular current is going to be running right against what will still be a very stiff wind in shallow water. It is going to go from very nasty to worse.
So, I may be condemned to another night here and I guess I will just have to go up to the restaurant again and eat some of the same critters I just saw in the bottom of the skiff. Probably oysters this time. Life on the waterway has its hardships.
The SPOT watchers here will see me going north again when the wind eases. No, I’m not turning around. I’m on call to the company that bought my business if an interesting project comes up and one has. Air connections are much easier from Charleston than farther south, no connections necessary which can be a nightmare in the winter. I’m going to move back within rental car reach of the airport until I find out the meeting schedule, if any.
This will also put me in Beaufort for New Years which the town does well and which Lee and Lynn enjoyed a lot last year. I’d moved down to Bull Creek for the night just not feeling in the mood at the time. This year, it feels appealing for some reason.
I’ve been asking around and my best options for a mechanic to do the head and valve adjustment on the engine are in that area as well. I also think it will be nice to break the sort of linear, “down and back” mindset. Maybe some back and forth travel will get me in a more, “Here I am in home waters.”, cruising mind set.
I’ll have mail waiting in Saint Marys so I’m still committed to traveling through Georgia and you can anticipate reports from the south later on.
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