Weekend trip report

[Pipe_Dream]

Thanks, guys.

And Spare, I will!

[spareparts]

next time you come up, check on the maritine center, its cheap, and right near the aquarium. I'd call first to make sure there is a slip. the only thing you have to watch is if the wind is coming out of the east, it can make it a little bumpy there

[reelapeelin]

Wow!!...whadda trip!!...glad to see someone else willing to take a foul weather trip...I like to be in the V w/the top up and rainy day...I'd love to make that trip...thanks for sharing a great trip w/us!!...

My lil wifey and I celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary this weekend as well...

That 3.4 MPG is a good example of a large motor not havin' to work hard to get the job done...that 200 is a perfect balance of power-to-weight on the V...NICE!!...

[willy]

Very nice Pipe, I am jealous.

Which Yammie 200 is that, HPDI?

And Oz, congrats, any woman that would put up with you for 22 years, well lets just say sainthood may be in the future for her. LOL

[Pipe_Dream]

Reel, it was a lot of fun. I look forward to doing it under better conditions, though! We really thought, after checking out several radar sources, that it was going to quit raining soon after our departure, and that the trip would be made under cloudy but dry conditions. We were SO wrong!

Yes, Willy, it's an HPDI. I had been looking forward to making a trip like this in order to find out what it would really burn, and I'm really pleased with the results. 5.5 gph is the BEST that my old 155 ever did -- typically it burned more like 7 gph. I'm going to fuel up this weekend and see how we did on the return trip.

[Blue_Runner]

Good trip and great report! Congrats on your 15th anniversary too. I've never been to Charleston. I wouldn't mind making the trip on the ICW DOWN to Charleston from Murrells Inlet. Mapquest shows 83 miles by land so it looks to be a similar journey as yours. Speaking of sandbars though, I'd be on pins and needles the whole time! Did your buddy get stuck too?

[Blue_Runner]

I love that pic of the spray...

[Pipe_Dream]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

Speaking of sandbars though, I'd be on pins and needles the whole time! Did your buddy get stuck too?

We were relying on our friend's experience, because he's made the trip so many times. And we would have never run aground except that we left the ICW to make a side trip. He was really mad at himself (we were way out of a clearly marked channel), but when you're wet and tired stuff happens. We were running down a wide river at about 30 mph, me behind him and off to the side a little, when suddenly my engine felt funny -- I thought I had spun the prop -- but then when I realized what was happening it was too late. Our boats ended up only 20 feet apart, right beside each other. Checked the tide tables and found it was still going out but only about 45 minutes until low. My friend felt so bad, but we made the best of it, stepped out of the boat and walked around the sandbar as it became more exposed. We were there almost 2 hours. I'm sure the people in the nice houses across the river had a good laugh at the sight: two boats stranded, and us strolling the sandbar in our rain gear (it was still drizzling). We had a lot of laughs ourselves later, when we were warm and dry and enjoying a few drinks!

Yeah, the spray photo -- I asked my wife to take a few. That was near the end of our trip home, coming down the Broad River, winds behind us at 20-25 kts and gusting to 30, which made for about 3 foot following seas. A LOT of spray!