Monday, 01 September 2008
NEWS:
Timoneer arrived off the Sea Bouy, Wassaw Sound on schedule at 0700 this morning. We covered at total of 786 miles and averaged 10.9 knots for the passage. This slower speed than normal was partly due to the Gulf Stream against us but also because we slowed down at midday yesterday to make sure we did not arrive too early.
The weather this morning was a bit more windy with passing rain squalls but it was deemed that the entrance was easily passable so we followed the Marina boat through the surf line and into the Wilmington River. It takes about an hour to get from the sea up the river to Thunderbolt which is a small satelite town of Savannah and our home for the next couple of months. Coming up the river is beautiful with great scenery and old southern style mansions lining the river banks amidst large Spanish Oaks covered in moss, straight out of Forest Gump.
When we arrived we learnt that a tropical revolving storm is headed this way from the Bahamas so we are at present strapping down and making preparations just in case.
This will be the end of these reports until we are back at sea again in late November.
All crew are fit and healthy and the boat is spic and span.
PW
