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<\/a>\nThis setup may not look very elegant but it gets the job done & it should get us home to Ontario. I’ll have lots of time this winter to come up with a more permanent & better looking solution.<\/p>\n
This was Ed’s first day on the water with me so I spent time getting him familiar with the boat & it’s systems. Ed has been boating & sailing for many years so he was right up to speed in no time at all & he looked after the helm for most of the day.<\/p>\n
A lot of the ICW on this part of our journey is heavily developed so we spent a lot of time admiring the homes & boats along the shorelines. We also saw a few fixer-uppers along the way…. wonder what their story is? Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Monday we departed North Myrtle Beach & headed for Southport. This would be a 5-6 hour journey, depending upon the tides & river currents. The weather was overcast & some light rain was predicted but conditions were fine for traveling on the ICW. The LCD TV monitor that I have at the helm station […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1B9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSome of the homeowners are very creative in personalizing their properties. The home in the photo above has a “picnic” shelter on its dock that is made to look like the back deck of a large sport fishing boat. Very nicely done!<\/p>\n
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\nWe arrived at the marina in Southport in mid afternoon & immediately saw that we were in high-roller country & we tied up just behind one of the big boys. I took the photo below just after sunset.
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\nShe’s a beauty! I was thinking about inviting her captain owner to my boat to show him my upper helm monitor innovation but they seemed to be pretty busy scrubbing & polishing so Ed & I focused on our plans for the next day.<\/p>\n