Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Coquina Yacht Club, Little River, SC

Coquina Yacht Club, Little River SC.
N33*51.855, W78* 38.306

It’s a beautiful day out today. I can’t believe I’m vacillating whether to stay or go. I feel guilty for wanting to stay but there’s weather that’s moving in over the region Wednesday evening and maybe Thursday depending on if it stalls. It feels wasteful to give up a good travel day like today, but I’d much rather be here then anchored up Bull Creek in 25+ winds. After we hemmmed and hawed, we both decided we’d rather be here so I called Sandy to make sure it was okay if we stayed for a couple more days. It was. She’s expecting a 48’ cat in so we moved the boat up a bit to make room for them behind us on the dock. I made a nice leisurely breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast (last of the homemade bread – time to make more) then we decided to take a walk around the boardwalk out to the ICW. Sandy said it was about 2.5 miles so it sounded good to us. There are a lot of condos here – quite pretty. The grounds are nicely tended too. On our walk out to the lighthouse, I came across a couple of flowering bushes that have a spicy aroma to them. I think they might be camellias – I’m not sure. They were pretty – pink with thick waxy leaves.

Across from the entrance into this little harbor is a derelict powerboat that someone grounded and left. We saw a couple others not far from here too. On our circle of the boardwalk we decided to walk out to the main road (US 17) to see what was there. Not a lot – a bunch of cars zipping by.

After our walk we worked on our davit ropes that hold the dinghy. For some reason they’re all twisted, and hard to work, so we undid them then re-laced them. The next chore was to take down the mainsail and reinstall it, put the reefing lines back in too. I’m not sure why the main came out of the track on the boom in the first place but it’s nice to have it back correctly. It looks like we’re missing a shackle on the boom for it. I’ll have to see if I can find one. While finishing up the sail work, the 48-foot cat came in. Wow, it’s huge… Sandy says that the mast is 75’, which means it has to stay on the outside – it can’t make it under the bridges on the ICW that have clearances of 65 feet. We helped Sandy to dock it. The wife (Karen) has some broken ribs and David was bringing it in alone with no problems. All I can say is I’m glad I didn’t have to bring it in…

I can’t believe how pretty of a day it was out to be. I enjoyed having this day here. Made spaghetti for dinner and fed my yeast culture to make bread tomorrow. It’s nice to have electricity – our little heater is humming away and my little coffee pot is making hot water for tea. Today – life is good.
A picture of our little boat at the dock.