On Sunday morning, we said good-bye to beautiful Windmill Harbour and their wonderful dockmaster, Jake, and put down our anchor off of Raccoon Island 49 miles later. Getting through the shallow waters of the Ashepoo Coosaw Cutoff was a slow but steady process, with the shallowest water being 6.6′ on a rising tide.

On Memorial Day we had an easy day – just 22 miles to our anchorage at Church Creek. On Tuesday morning, we were underway by 6:30 a.m. in order to get through the Elliott Cut before Ebb Tide, make the 9:30 a.m. opening of the Wappoo Creek Bridge, then dock at Charleston City Marina for two nights while waiting out weather.

Steady rain made for a very wet passage from Church Creek to Charleston, but at least it wasn’t freezing cold. We were worried that Coronavirus concerns might be lessened in the City of Charleston, since South Carolina “opened up” earlier than other states, but that is clearly not the case here at the marina. We’re very happy about that, though we’ll not be getting off of our boat very much, anyway, especially with the weather forecast: wind gusts in the high 20’s this afternoon and tonight, then more rain tomorrow.