The curse of the Charleston current finally bit us. As we were departing Safe Harbor awaiting a dock hand that never came, our neighbor offered to help us shove-off. The Wind should’ve pushed us directly off the dock so we thought we were in pretty good shape, but as we moved forward with a boat directly in front of us, the current was pushing us back into the dock. We did not realize that until we shoved-off. Unfortunately, we contacted the boat in front of us bent two of our stanchions and scratched his hull. My first failure at docking/undocking! 

Then the day presented itself with fierce 20 to 25 knot winds and a current that seemed to constantly be against us. It turned what should’ve been an eight hour day into a much longer journey. Our first attempted anchoring was unsuccessful due again to heavy current and the anchor not catching. We had to move to location number two, which was fortunately just around the corner, and after letting out an extended amount of chain were able to catch. We were just in time to see a beautiful sunset, that brought a bit of joy to the day.

Horrible Start to a Grueling Day!

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