Day 205 - The Greatful Head — Captain Father John

Miles cruised 0, fuel purchased 0, slip fee $85, daily high temperature 71°f.

Saturday was a beautiful day in Charleston, South Carolina. A little cool but bright sunshine. We had a visit from Looper royalty. Kim Russo Director America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association visited us in Charleston. She is the Charleston harbor host. We will see her again in Norfolk at the Looper rendezvous.

And with Dale and Andy

We had a wonderful horse drawn carriage tour of downtown Charleston. Franklin was an excellent docent.

Charleston is where the Civil War started with the confederates firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. The confederates fired on Fort Sumter for 34 hours raining down over 3,000 cannon balls without the Union sustaining a single casualty. Eventually the fort was reduced to rubble and the Union general surrendered. The confederates allowed the Union to surrender with dignity and fire a 100 gun salute to the confederates. During the firing one of the Union cannons exploded and the first civil war casualty was the result of friendly fire. In the end there were 750,000 casualties from the civil war.

On Saturday afternoon we had a visit from Dave and Bev Peel. They are former Chicagoans that moved to Charleston. They are sailors and have their boat Kiva at the city marina only a few slips away from us. Kiva is currently in Savannah getting a new deck applied at the Hinkley boat yard.

Tomorrow we will do the Fort Sumpter tour and on Monday we will cruise 50 miles to Georgetown, SC. The Hudson River is calling to us like a Sirens call.

The oysters are prolific in Charleston. You can pick your dinner off the pilings at the marina.

A little potty humor. The toilet on a boat is called the head. The boat in this photo pumps out the holding tanks on the boats in the marina.

Bonus photo

Carl (Chef) Wooden – quote of the day.

“I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.” – Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth, CBE (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor. Firth’s films have grossed more than $3 billion from 42 releases worldwide.[2] Firth has received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup. Firth’s most notable and acclaimed role to date has been his 2010 portrayal of King George VI in The King’s Speech, a performance that earned him an Oscar and multiple worldwide best actor awards.