Resetting and heading off again….

We needed a few days just to reset after that last adventure. Georgetown SC was just the place for that. A quaint little town where we could get to know our buddy boat better, yet another really well done, local Maritime museum to explore, and a few jobs to check out on the boat as we took a minute.

We checked our engines after the previous journey and found very quickly the reason for the engine failure, the fuel tank had mixed up all the gunk from the bottom of the tank in the churning seas and totally clogged the fuel filters, luckily an easy fix and something that we would be on the look out for each time we set off.

Then we discovered that we could do the next 20 or 30 mile section from Georgetown south, down the ICW (Intra Coastal Waterway) as there were no bridges for this part, and it was the perfect antidote to what had come before. Cold start, but no traffic joining us as we navigated by hand steering the relatively narrow passages through the marshland of South Carolina, eventually spitting out at Bulls Bay back into the Atlantic, for a glorious sail down the coast into Fernandina Beach, the most northerly part of Florida.

We had a few days here in the delightful Spanish-style town, took a long walk to the beach on the Atlantic side which was covered in fog but did us all the world of good to be out exploring again. Sunny, clear beaches could wait…….