Georgetown to Sapelo Sound
After determining that we had a faulty alternator and getting Bruce Brainard to work on it, we planned to stay in Georgetown until Wednesday. So we settled in for the stay.
Bruce plays bass in a band “Foreclosure” and he told us about the “Taste of Georgetown" that would be held Saturday in downtown. His band was playing.
Saturday, we awoke to bone chilling cold in the upper 30's. Deju vous all over again.
We walked downtown around noon, watched the band (their fingers were cold), and decided we wanted a good cheeseburger from “the Big Tuna” on the waterfront. After lunch we went back and listened to the band and had dessert.
Georgetown has a community theater and had a show of Broadway Musicals playing Saturday evening, so we went to it. It was some good singing and we enjoyed it. They have a great theater and it was full. We sat in the balcony, but the sound and view were great.
Sunday, we decided we needed some supplies (i.e. a space heater) from Walmart. We checked the GPS and it was about a 3 mile walk. We needed the exercise. We picked up a few things (space heater) at Walmart and decided that we could afford a taxi back to the boat.
Monday morning Bruce called and said he had located a new alternator. We could drive to Charleston and pick it up or have it shipped. We opted to rent a car and drove to Charleston. We picked up a couple movies at The Red Box on the way back and that provided our evening entertainment.
Tuesday morning Bruce came over and had the alternator fixed by 11:00. By 11:30 we were underway headed out to the Ocean for our first real opportunity to sail offshore on the trip.
Our trip South this time is our first overnighter on Eureka.
Ends up that most of the night the winds were out of the Southwest, so we ended up motoring until around 2 am. Then the winds started clocking to the Northwest. We put up the sails around 2 am and shut down the engine. It's 8:30 am now and we're still under sail.
This was our first overnight offshore sailing. It is incredible to sail at night offshore with no lights to interfere with seeing the sky. There was no moon after about 10:30 and it really gets dark. You can't tell the sky from earth. It all is black. The starts are magnificent. You can see millions. Sailing in the dark compares somewhat with flying by instrument in an airplane. You have to depend on your compass and GPS - sailing by instrument - because there are no visual references.
Sailing at night is a whole new perspective. With the engine off and no night at all, you can barely see the bow wave. It seems that you are moving fast looking at the bow wave. We did average about 5.7 knots.
The whole trip ended up to be 171 nautical miles for the 28 hours.
During the overnight, Joe and I took alternate short naps, with both of bringing our sleeping bags on deck while the other was on-watch. That worked out well, although it was rather cool all night.
The sunset and sunrise were nice and the weather is still looking great.
Turns out that we decided to go into Sapelo Sound for the evening. It's further South and we were able to make it before dark.
We anchored in a beautiful place off Sapelo Island and met a couple (Lilly and George Haywood) on a trawler from the area. They told us some interesting information about the area.
This reminds us a little of Cape Lookout because it is so isolated and well preserved.
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