Thursday, 11-19-2015. 0900 Wind NE at 10 knots. Temp 58
degrees F.
Intermittent rain all last night. Raining this morning and rain
forecast for today. Staying on hook waiting for better weather. Nursing the
damned mystery leak we have not found, sharing bowl emptying duty, reading, napping,
conversing, and watching life unfold on the water.
The main attraction is a fleet of tug boats, tenders and
barges loaded with thousand foot sections of thirty-six inch polypropylene pipe,
cranes, massive pumps and all manner of other necessary equipment, gather just
to the south of us, a full blown dredging operation waiting for the tide change.
Listening to their boat to boat communications as they coordinated the movement
of this ‘floating city’ was like listening to a NASA launch. They finally got
under way, ponderously motored by us within two hundred feet and passed through
Lady Island Bridge on their way to Wilmington, NC. I still can’t believe they didn’t
hit something.
Tomorrow we dock at the Downtown Marina in beautiful and
historic downtown Beaufort, SC.
Good night all.
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