After a year of refurbishing Blue Moon by King and Gary at Green Cove Marina, Gary and Vicki are the first couple to take it out on the first leg of the Great Loop. We will be on the boat until May 8th when King and Sharon will take over for the majority of the Loop this year. We need to get to Elizabeth City, VA, a distance of about 700 miles. We finally got away on April 17th and fought high winds gusting up to 40 knots to blow in to Jacksonville. We anchored out until we got to Savannah, GA.
Beautiful city, very historic. We stayed at the River Street Marketplace dock. We were right in the channel with all the huge container ships, tugs, ferries, etc and the bouncing around 24 hrs a day was not great.
Yesterday afternoon (Fri. 4/25) we got to Charleston and Gary had to dock in high winds. It took 5-6 tries to get into the slip, but the dock hands praised him getting in here without hitting anything which of course is the mark of any successful docking.
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