At 6:30 am, we started our engines. It was too early for the dock crew and we were on our own. To understand the current, Mike put a piece of a popsicle stick in the water to watch its movement. It slowly moved straight back. Kelly and Jen each held a line and let it slip through the cleats. By doing so, it allows us to keep the boat close enough to the dock as we pull out to not drift in to the boat in the slip next to us. Mike turned the boat just like pulling out of a parking space and backed into the ICW. Kelly watched the stern which is a blind spot for Mike. When we plan carefully (over plan actually) we don’t have issues.

We scheduled the time we needed to arrive at each shallow area and used AquaMaps to help us zig zag through it. Low tide was at 10:30 so we anchored at 9:45 am. While we waited, Jen made lunch and we started studying the weather. 

Weather reports showed storms at our destination, Georgetown. We decided to stop 3 hours south of Georgetown at Leland Marina in McClellenville for the night.  

At 1:00 pm, we pulled up the anchor and headed for Lealand Marina. Jen drove and Kelly helped navigate the zig zagging needed to avoid shallow areas. It turned out to be a good decision. We had an extra 3 feet under the boat and didn’t see depth less than 7 feet. Whew!!

Staying the night at Leland Oil was a good decision because McClellenville was a nice surprise.  It is a small and quiet fishing town. While Mike finished working, Jen and Kelly walked to a seafood store and got some fresh shrimp caught same day. It was probably the best shrimp we ever had.

It was a quiet night with no wind or current, hoping for a good night sleep as tomorrow will be a long travel day for our crew mate Jen.