Left Beaufort, SC, and headed south. Carey borrowed the Lady Island’s Marina courtesy car at 9 AM and went for a quick shopping trip, Back at 10 we started the engines and, oops, the generator decided to say “no go” this morning. We shifted all the 120 volt stuff to the inverter and headed out. We had been using the generator during the day versus the inverter (that makes 115 current out of the DC batteries) because the generator is required for the heat pumps to keep us warm. Luckily the day proved to be fairly warm. Maybe this cold snap is going away.
We headed south past the marine facility at Parris Island, traveled on Port Royal Sound, then, after passing Hilton Head Island, joined the Calibogue Sound to get us to Daufuskie Island, the Wright River, and finally crossed the Savanah River. We’ve entered Georgia country now. A few miles later we approached the Thunderbolt area and moored at Savannah Bend Marina. I had called ahead and had a battery ready to be installed, as that was my diagnosis of the generator problem. Not to be, as the new battery did not solve the problem, We’ll do a review of the situation in the morning, but probably will continue traveling with the inverter and batteries. It is getting warm enough during the day heat is not needed as we travel and we have shore power for heat at night. We’ll schedule a full look-see while we are back in Virginia mid-December. Meanwhile, pasta dinner aboard and a surprise delivery of breakfast biscuits by marina staff in the morning. Very hospitable marina. However, we usually dock on Savannah’s historic downtown dock wall and miss strolling around the area. Will do it on the return.
We were busy all day with navigation issues through South Carolina and Georgia so not get many pictures were taken, except for a seldom-seen trimaran. Oddly enough, their crew took pictures of us. Remember, double-click for larger view, and use the back arrow to return to this page.
