Thursday morning the anchor is up before sunrise and we are on our way by 6:06 am. Todays forecast shows a brief weather window for an offshore passage so we leave the Cape Fear River for open water. This passage will take us South beyond the Myrtle Beach area while avoiding the meandering ICW and its many bridges. The Bridges along this stretch of the ICW have created clearance problems for us in the past. We make good time offshore but tomorrows forecast is for winds in excess of 40 knots so we decide to head into Winyaw Bay and anchor for the night. Having covered a total of 82.8 nm today we are now in the State of South Carolina.
