Nearly 450 nautical miles into our trip southward and today, it is likely warmer in Oriental than it is here. Gale force winds and temp of 28 degrees. We will probably not go outside today. There was a flood tide coming into the Marina so we hit 8.8 SOG.
As we left Charleston Harbor we ran into a complete wall of fog--and guess what--after a new chip (as recommended by RayMarine) and a bit of work, we still have broken radar. We can get it to work on an intermittent basis (once every 3 minutes) without shutting down all our systems (including our chart plotter). Marginally okay, but certainly not the system we thought we installed. We have had problems with this system since it was installed. Ken will be on the phone with Ray Marine again today. Since leaving RD, we were lucky enough to post averages of around 6 knots (max 7.4 SOG under sail) and fuel consumption of 0.56 gallons per hour for the 54 hp Yanmar.
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