On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 02:23:18PM -0400, Jim wrote: > Ben Okopnik wrote: > > > > In fact, if anyone here can speak up for Savannah or Beaufort (SC), > > please do; I've been through the latter (didn't have much time), have > > never visited the former, and searching the Net comes up with "eh, > > not much there." I'd appreciate any words of wisdom. > > You can go up the Savannah River and moor at the public dock on River > Street. It's a friendly area with a park long the water, lots of pubs > and restaurants. I think it's free but a busy river. There are a few > nice marinas near by. Isle of Hope is one of my favorites. Anchoring in > the many creeks both north and south of Savannah is fantastic. Seldom > much traffic except for a crabber or two. Deep water, good holding and > with a breeze no bugs to speak of.
Great info - thanks! > I like Beaufort. We got stuck there for about 5 days when our injector > pump developed a serious problem. We stayed a the downtown marina (I > think). There is an anchorage next door with a free dingy dock that's > underwater some of the time. I think the marina will let you dock up > for a price. If you rent a slip they do have a courtesy car, or did > when we were there. Grocs are a very long walk, a long bike or a short > taxi rid away. It's a nice city to visit. We took the guided tour > offered by the business right at the marina. Many, many years ago, when I first started cruising, I passed through Byu-fort (sorta inconvenient about the SC/NC Beauforts, isn't it? Makes you wish that English had accent marks or something. :) The above is very similar to what I remember, which is - well, comforting in one sense, predictable in another, and boggling from yet another perspective. But I do recall it being a friendly, pleasant place (except for a large boat, the "Gray Panther", dragging down on me. I rafted the bugger up to prevent it from slamming into the bridge, and when the owners came back aboard, they didn't so much as thank me. Some people's illegitimate children need to learn basic manners...) > Skip Charleston, IMHO. No decent anchoring, high priced mooring balls, > even higher priced marina. Nice place to visit, but stay somewhere else > and rent a car. That's very different from what I saw just a few years ago. A shame, that, since I recall the anchorage as being right across from the city marina, free dockage, a very friendly marina staff (they had a courtesy shuttle, and didn't mind that I wa anchored out), and a wonderful city. We'll probably stop there anyway, just to see how things have changed, but I'll be looking closely at my Skipper Bob's for alternate nearby anchorages. Thank you very much, Jim! -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
