Charleston

We left Charleston behind this week after a few wonderful days. This city is as walkable as Boston , elegant , historic, and lively. It has a great sense of place. It is also a large commercial port with swift tides and a few interesting shoals in the harbor. This makes for many opportunities for maritime adventures. While we were there a few boats had anchoring drills as the currents changed and the direction shift caused their anchors to let go. The city is very friendly to cruising boats, and almost everyone on the way south makes a stop there. We caught up with boats we had seen along the way and talked with people we met in the Bahamas last year . Each time we visit Charleston, we leave reluctantly. The way south now heads into some seriously low country. The rest of SC and Georgia have some of the shallowest rivers and sounds anywhere. There are several dredged canals called Cuts, that link rivers and sounds and these shoal like crazy. Fields Cut , on the way to the Savannah river, is one of these spots. We looked for water on port and saw 4 feet on the depth sounder as we felt ourselves drag through the mud. We moved to the center and made a new channel. Starboard was no better but luckily it is a short passage. I hope the boats who follow us can use the channel we made although it does zig zag a bit. I think higher tide is the only answer.