Well hey again sailor fans… Its time to jump south again. We are in 
Charleston South Carolina still and staying comfortably in the Cooper River Marina. Great place and I would recommend it to anyone in this area. The marina is cheap and clean. It is far from town and not within walking distance of anything but the marina staff are really good about giving transient sailors a ride into town for provisions or 
whatever.
So for the sailors out there… here is the situation… look at the first map on the top right… this is a wind gust forecast and shows the center of the low out to sea. Remember blue is 40 knots and very bad. This is this afternoon (Monday Dec 10th) and now look at the second image which is tonight (Monday night) and 
shows almost a second low forming close to land and following the other one out to the east.
The cold air over the land is reacting with the warm water and creating its own winds. We are hoping to get in behind the stronger winds and just hug the shore for 
wave protection. But as you sailors know… you can never trust mother nature to follow the forecast. We will be out sailing tomorrow morning between the nasty and the shore hoping the low does continue to move out to the east. If it doesn’t we are going to get spanked again.
To get out of Charleston we have to leave at about 4am as slack tide is 5am and then the currents in the channel will turn against us. It took us 5 hours to motor in 6 miles against the current a week ago so we don’t want to waste 6 hours motoring out against the current. SOOOO…. I guess it is important that we leave before 
the current switches… thus a 4am start. I never enjoy starting in the middle of the night and don’t enjoy sailing out of a busy harbor in the dark but we do what we have to do I guess.
If we leave at 4am… and its 10 miles to get out to open ocean again for us then we should have about a 18 hour weather window with winds between running on a starboard broad reach to a starboard beam reach with the winds between 12-25 knots. The theory is it should be a good sail… but no forecast has ever been correct… so I guess we will see where it is wrong.
The plan for this jump is 125 nautical miles to the entrance to Brunswick Georgia and then another 10 miles to get into protection. Wednesday afternoon by around lunch time the winds will come around from the south and be on the nose so the weather window will close.
As good sailors we have compared the forecast models of 5 different sources and they all agree the nasty should move east and basically conditions are good for a jump. I’m secretly praying for a good easy sail or at least with the winds behind the beam. WildChild can point to windward but it is not a lot of fun bashing to windward and having the yacht heeled over rail in the water.
Hopefully the next time we get back to post a message we will be telling you about a successful sail and not more misery.
Cheers