For the first time since buying Mary Lee I am finally starting to feel really good about how things are coming together. I am doing better all the time. Mary Lee is also doing better. I intended to do all the work myself from the beginning and with the exception of very few things, I have. She went in the water on Wednesday, July 2nd. A day early. Thursday, in the beginning of all the rain from Hurricane Arthur, I moved her to Osprey marina. I wanted her at the best place around just in case the wind got testy.

She looks a little shinier than her trip down last summer about this time. It took about an hour to get to Osprey marina from Hague. Rained all the way. Not bad. Believe it or not, the heavy rain started about 10 minutes after I got docked at Osprey.

We have a little bit of preparation to do for the trip to Georgetown, SC. in the morning.

It was a beautiful day for the trip to Georgetown. Very little boat traffic. We left Myrtle Beach at 8:30 am and were tied up at Johnson's Marina by 1:30 pm.

Vivian was being camera shy. Unfortunately, as far as picture taking goes, we had such a nice trip down that we virtually forgot about pictures until almost here. Vivian got a few.

                                                 The bridge just before Georgetown.

                                        A stump as we went up sampit river to the marina.

She did catch a couple nice sunsets from the stern of Mary Lee in her summer berth. I guess we will be seeing some nice sunsets at the end of every day spent onboard.
                                                 This.......

Turned into this!

That was the first night. Afterwords, we drove up and watched a quite good fireworks show.
Next day was work day. I had deck hardware to get mounted and a couple of the new lines to get put on. While I did this, Vivian worked in the cabin getting things squared away.

First new line is on.

Vivian tried to get a picture of the second line when it was on but the sun did not cooperate with the digital camera. Next lines to go up will be the choker and hanger lines on the wishbone booms. But that is next weekend. First we have a sunset to enjoy. Vivian took another great picture.

Went to bed kind of early. Still have some things to do before heading back to myrtle beach tomorrow. I am having a charging issue. Either the alternator I had redone in Baltimore is the suspect or the batteries. First thing first.
 I will remove alternator and have it tested this week in Myrtle beach. If it is okay. I will pull batteries that were also bought in Baltimore and take them in to have a load put on them and see what is happening. So this week is splicing lines and alternator.

 Next weekend is putting lines up and testing batteries. We are going sailing on the next weekend. I am getting anxious. Just need to take care of the last few things first. People have bragged that Winyah Bay is the prettiest bay on the east coast. We are very close to finding out. I feel an adventure coming on.