Fernandina Beach to Charleston
So let me catch up with this adventure or more aptly "tale of woe". Left Fernandina Beach at about 6:30am on Sunday morning. Had a beautiful day sail. Weather was 5-10 out of Southeast Made great time all day with GPS predicting our Charleston arrival at around 6:30am. Great 24 hour run, but not to be. Even caught a nice blackfin tuna. The winds predicted approaching Charleston 5-10 out of the north turned out to be 20 out of the northeast, right on our nose. Waves and wind slowed us to 1-2kts putting us in Charleston at somewhere late afternoon. Too much pounding to weather for two senior citizens. We turned around and headed for Port Royal Sound, 33 miles away to the south. We were 25 miles from Charleston at the time. Neither Dave nor I had ever entered Port Royal so it was daunting with a steady 20 kts out of the Northeast. The channel approach is due North for nearly 5 miles, then a turn of about 30deg to the west for 6 miles putting the waves on our be