Sigmachi Views From The Crew

From SIGMACHI... Deep in the swamp on the Dawho River, of SC in 16 ft of water...taking a break today Jan 24, 2020.  Around AICW MM# 496.  BEAUFORT, SC is about 60 miles away.  by water...and that is the only way we are going to get there. Let me catch up on this Blog...from my viewpoint.  Jeanne posts here rendition individually No,we won't be able to attend the Lodge Creek Yacht Club Change of Command festivities this year...I just hope we are out of South Carolina by the 1st of Feb.  Seems like traveling these rivers of the Lowlands that for every ten miles traveled that you only male 5 miles of due South distance toward the Sunshine State. We docked at Harborwatch Marina in Georgetown, SC. Wonderful marina and town!.  Love it when dockmaster (Chris) knows it is SIGMACHI coming by the throaty purring of those Johnson &Towers 671N diesels!   The most competent independent contractor...Ernie Owens changed oil on the 671Ns...He said the oil in my engines was the cleanest oil he...

Such a nice, tucked away anchorage!  But don't anchor - it is too shallow.  We voluntarily stayed here two nights just to chill out, rest, whatever you want to call it.  After all, we are not in a race or anything like that.  Just heading south to get warm.  When we finally pulled anchor (and I mean pulled....) to tackle a few more miles going south, we discovered that, just because you are going south, it doesn't mean it keeps getting warmer!  What is wrong with this picture?  We are headed south and it is getting COLDER!!!!  Brrr....  But at least our forecasts are NOT for snow and an icy mix like our neighbors at home. Alan had planned for us to anchor at South Port but I started looking at places just before South Port because everything at South Port that was free or an anchorage specified one or two boats.  What if we get there and there isn't room for us???  It will be getting dark and I, at least, am tired....

We stayed 2 days at the Church Street Dock.  Very nice folks and very much mainstream America sleepy little town.  The floating docks with rubber bumpers were very nice.  Water and electric at the dock but that is all.  $1.50 per foot wasn't bad either.  No one to help tying up or leaving made for some fun times!  All I can say is, I may be 76 but, after wrestling with a 55 lb. anchor and pulling on a line and moving a 40' boat so I could get back on, you don't want to take me on!!!  It's a beautiful sunny day.  All the time we were in Swansboro, we could hear the boom, boom, boom firing from Camp Lejune.  And now we are cruising past their range with warming signs that, if the light is flashing, they are firing!!  It wasn't flashing thank god!  Occasional glimpses of palm trees make me feel like maybe, just maybe, we might make it to Florida this year! Jeanne L. Cecil, Broker Turnock Real Estate Services, Inc. 4...

Greetings from SIGMACHI  located in fogged in conditions in Morehead City, NC harbor!  Really fogged in and forecast is for Ocean Fog all day!   After a week in Oriental NC we left Whittaker Pointe Marina on Monday morning and almost as soon as we entered the Neuse River...fog enveloped us again.   In wintertime I operate SIGMACHI from the lower helm which is comfortably enclosed with a 360° view   The instrument panel is directly below the Radar array mounted on the front of the flying bridge.  Radar showed us the way...HOWEVER...we later found out that the radar transmission signals interfered with the reception signals of both navigation programs on the Garmin chart plotter and my IPad.(This I didn't know until fellow mariner Rip Tyler wrote an evening Email to me expressing concern that we were traveling in a "fog warning" and probably using Radar with the two navigation instruments located on the dashboard of SIGMACHI  (located BELOW the "open array Radar antenn...

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Ahoy and Greetings from the Crew of SIGMACHI! Present Location:  Campbell Creek, NC...Just 1/2 mile off of Goose Creek-AICW near Aurora, NC....at docks of AGLCA Harbor Hosts- Rip &  Beth Tyler Weather: Sunshiny and up to gale force gusts, small craft warnings "up." Jeanne and I are status quo in Campbell Creek, NC.  Winds are up to gale force.  We shall see about moving down the AICW to the Neuse River and turning West to Oriental, NC the 30 miles from here by boat on Monday. Today our host, Rip Tyler, briefly came aboard and did some "pre-service examinations. The radar works but the antenna sometimes sticks at startup.  It can eventually be prompted to turn.  Rip says it being a 1998 model probably should have a tech grease the antenna motor etc.  Other than that it is a  welcome addition to SIGMACHI's helm! Rip said he can't say anything about the autopilot...it doesn't seem to begetting power to it and the black box to rage Robertson 2500 series is lo...