"2003, November 13 - part 7 - down the Waccamaw" Bucksport Travelogue by grandmaR

Bucksport from the river

After CORAL BAY went into the Ospry marina, we proceeded down the river toward Bucksport. FRANCES passed us fairly quickly.

We passed Bucksport and saw a sailboat there named L'AIR.

We were waked very badly by a power boat with a red hull named SUREFIRE from RI.

Marker in the trees

The treadmaster on the cockpit floor has not cured properly and the sections keep shifting. Bob was on the side trying to push one section off the cockpit drain outlet when he looked up and the spreaders were into the cypress trees on the west side. We were still in 24 feet of water.

ATON with an osprey nest

Passed Wacca Wachee marina and just past that were waked by a sports fishing boat named BIG MAMA III. SEA TULIP, another trawler passed, and then ODYSSEY, an Endeavour Trawler Catamaran from Vero Beach came by.

Brookgreen Creek - blocked off

It was getting very gusty - we had no sails up, but were still doing 8 mph. Fortunately the wind was behind us so I guess we were sailing on the bimini.

We heard a large power boat named SUSAN A call the Boat Shed. Also we heard FRANCES call them - they had intended to anchor in the Georgetown harbor and said there wasn't room because of moorings.

SEA TULIP was calling Georgetown Landing Marina and hoping for a dock that he could get into easily without being blown around by the wind.

I saw buzzards circling but every time I focused on them, they were blown out of their tight circle formation and had to regroup. We smell the paper mill in Georgetown which I think smells like cooking cabbage.

Next: Georgetown.