We leave shortly after our other two creek mates and plan to get to Lady's Island Marina and Beaufort before noon. Lady's Island Marina is one of our favorites.
We spent a week here on our first trip south waiting out bad weather. They have a sizable live-aboard community. Many cruisers spend a few months at a time here. One woman we meet divides her time between Lady's Island and Long Island in the Bahamas and keeps a car at both locations.
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| Ladies Island |
We spent a week here on our first trip south waiting out bad weather. They have a sizable live-aboard community. Many cruisers spend a few months at a time here. One woman we meet divides her time between Lady's Island and Long Island in the Bahamas and keeps a car at both locations.
Mary, the current marina manager has been getting great reviews. We find out the marina has recently been sold and the new owner is spending more on maintenance, but also charging more. Mary informs us there is a “Low Country Boil” (sounds like a medical condition) from 2-4 this afternoon and we are invited. A local author who has an office in the Ladies Island Marina building is celebrating his 60th birthday.
We immediately get busy and walk to Grayco hardware store and get our propane tank filled and pick up a few items. When we get back to the boat I get out the sewing machine to fix a couple zippers on our enclosure that needed to be reversed for improved functionality.
Finished in time to go to the Birthday Party. They have live music. The author is friends with “Eric Stone” a Jimmy Buffet type singer that a lot of cruisers like. The food was excellent. A Low Country Boil is fresh shrimp, small potatoes, sausage and corn all steamed together with spices. I try hard not to pig out to badly.
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| Low Country Boil |
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| Eric Stone |
I have a very interesting conversation with the owner of the canvas shop at the marina. 5 years ago when we were first here he was just getting started, now he has moved into a bigger space and lives on his boat in the marina. He gets my attention when he tells me he has gone digital. Instead of making patterns in place out of plastic, he has a machine that optically digitizes the coordinates of the frames and boat mounting points and has software that creates the patterns. He has a large scale printers that prints the patterns directly on the fabric to be cut.
We get back to the boat and finish cleaning up the sewing stuff. Linda and I play cards,” Manipulation”
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