South & West to Beaufort SC

/ shellerina

The next 45 miles on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is characterized by shallow shoaling waters. We have transited this passage 3 times without a problem. Our strategy is ensure we have some tide water beneath us. Sunday we pulled into Steamboat Creek because our high tide window was too early in the day for us to transit these upcoming waters.

With work Zoom meetings scheduled on Monday and Tuesday, we decided to stay anchored here until an hour or two before high tide on Wednesday. Then weigh anchor to pass through the shallow areas.

This shows about 40 hours of movement around our anchor as tide and wind change.

For Wednesday:
Doable with some tide beneath us.

Also, doable with some tide.

We successfully passed through this area once. But we have since been taking an alternative route through St Helena Sound SC south of Fenwick Island.
The great port of Beaufort SC comes up next for us. We’ll re-provision and prepare for a visit with friends in Savannah GA. That puts us within a week or so of Jacksonville for November and December.

Our yacht insurance prohibits us from being south of Cumberland Island GA from June 30 to November 1. That’s the controlling date at this stage on this seasonal trip south.

Our month of January is tentatively going to be spent exploring the St Johns River south of Jacksonville.

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