Day 4 Beaufort, SC to ocean

   Day 4 started out rough, but we made it better. At 11AM we walked into town for a last froyo stop before our offshore passage. I figured we would be eating bilge food for a few days, so why not. The froyo place in town was a very friendly place. This was our second trip there in 2 days, and they remembered us. We were the first customers of the day and the franchise owner was meeting with the manager. We struck up a conversation and they had a lot of questions after we told him we traveled the entire east coast having various yogurt along the way. We told him our favorite things about the different places. I also gave him some free advice about being listed online. We had only found him by walking by, as they do not show up online anywhere. After our visit we departed for 30 some hours of sailing. It was a very nice day, with temperatures in the 60's. Not warm, but not freezing. In fact I believe this was our first ocean passage where we did not freeze.

 

It was just lightly breezy maybe 5kts. We sailed some 5 hours before we fired up the engine for the rest of the trip. It was mostly downwind, and i rigged my first gybe preventers.

The seas were calm the entire day. maybe 2' seas with a long period. Its too bad we had no good wind to sail on. I desire to make passages on wind alone, but if there is wind, there are seas, and at this point our boat is not too comfy on anchor (no generator, or heat) so we do not like to stay on anchor too long. Back in the ocean again!