Hampton VA, to Charleston SC
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John & Jane Craven
Tue 27 Nov 2012 16:31
The next issue was the timing of the trip. We calculated that we needed 60 hours to do the trip. As we have very short days now, and we wanted to leave and arrive in daylight, we would have to do the trip over three nights, leaving Saturday afternoon about 4pm, and arriving at the earliest, at 2am on Tuesday. We knew we would loose time going into wind and waves, so the 2am arrival was not an issue, as it happened we arrived at 10am - perfect!
The first night was VERY rolly, and the constant corkscrew motion played havoc with my insides. Fortunately for me, John was able to do lots of extra watch time and I could sleep it off! Once the rolling stopped, the banging started, so now were on night 2 of very little sleep - and they say this is a fun way to live??? Eventually, as predicted, the wind and sea settled and we had a calm sail the next day. In all we probably sailed about half way so that was better than we thought, and we are now safely round Cape Hatteras, the last big obstacle between us and the Bahamas.
Charleston has recently been voted the top city in America to visit so we were very excited about coming here. It is full of history, and on the way in we passed Fort Sumter where the first shots of the American Civil War were fired. the city also has another wartime claim to fame, the first warship ever sunk by a submarine went down just of Charleston Harbour!
We are now looking forward to spending some time here exploring, before we head out to the Bahamas for some real sunshine. The city has loads of nice Xmas events on and it will be great to get a bit of Xmas spirit, before we head off.