Fair Currents Today!

From: Leland Oil Company Marina, McClellanville, SC MM 430.0

To: Church Creek Anchorage, 10 miles south of Charlestown, SC MM 488.2

L/L: 32 42.53N 80 10.77W

Distance Traveled: 58.3

Hours Motoring: 9.4

Average Speed: 6.2 mph

Weather: Cloudy, overcast and afternoon rain; east wind 10 knots or less except gusts to 20 in squall; temp range 63 - 77 degrees

Comment: Fair Currents Today!

Today, our average speed was 6.2 mph. It was a relatively easy day on the waterway. The Coast Guard broadcast several unscheduled safety bulletins including a report of a boat adrift in the Ashley River and the sinking S/V Ragtime between the city marina and the CG Station. S/V Ragtime remains on the bottom, is unmarked and is not visible at high tide.

Rain started falling about an hour before it was time to anchor. Just as it was time to get the ground tackle ready for deployment, a squall blew threw with 20 knot gusts. The rain blocked all visibility and we had to follow our line into the anchorage from last year’s visit to this anchorage.

After the anchor was set, the rain and the wind stopped (go figure!). As of this writing, it remains calm in the anchorage now occupied by a total of four boats (a very large motor yacht, the PDQ 36 Pretty Penny (first sighted in Mile Hammock Bay), Canvasback Too (lying on his own hook) and SUNSHINE (lying to her 25 lb. CQR plow anchor).