Southport, NC to Myrtle Beach

[JeffVans]

@JeffVans did you make the run today how did it go?

@JeffVans curious myself how it went.

I made it down here but unfortunately not via boat. A tree decided to fall on my road this morning so I had to clean that up, then there was a mix up with boarding the dog so that took an extra hour and a half to get her somewhere else... FML I’m going to try the run back up on the way home I think. The silver lining behind the enormous rain cloud is that if I had been in the bot I would have gotten SOAKED!!! We ran into a few bad storms between Southport and MB.

 

[cameron.sprinkle]

I made it down here but unfortunately not via boat. A tree decided to fall on my road this morning so I had to clean that up, then there was a mix up with boarding the dog so that took an extra hour and a half to get her somewhere else... FML I’m going to try the run back up on the way home I think. The silver lining behind the enormous rain cloud is that if I had been in the bot I would have gotten SOAKED!!! We ran into a few bad storms between Southport and MB.

If it wasn't for bad luck I would have no luck at all!

 

[JeffVans]

Finally made it out on the water, only got rained on a little bit.

 

[cameron.sprinkle]

@JeffVans where were you at with beach pic?

 

[robert843]

View attachment 80247 View attachment 80248 Finally made it out on the water, only got rained on a little bit.

@JeffVans I'm sorry man I just realized I never called you back. I hope you enjoyed your day! You still thinking about running back to South Port on Saturday? I think I may run from here up to Surf City NC on Saturday.

 

[JeffVans]

@JeffVans where were you at with beach pic?

That was at Bird Island, I think. My GPS is a little off apparently but it should have been it. Really good for beaching really soft sand. But being that close to the inlet, it did push the boat around quite a bit, but the anchor held on the beach the whole time.

 

[robert843]

That was at Bird Island, I think. My GPS is a little off apparently but it should have been it. Really good for beaching really soft sand. But being that close to the inlet, it did push the boat around quite a bit, but the anchor held on the beach the whole time.

If your gps appears off on the coordinates I gave you it is probably set on degrees, minutes and seconds for coordinates. The coordinates I gave you were in decimal degree format it can be changed in the settings of your gps or you can throw the coordinators I gave you into google and ask it to convert them to degrees minutes seconds and it will do so

 

[JeffVans]

If your gps appears off on the coordinates I gave you it is probably set on degrees, minutes and seconds for coordinates. The coordinates I gave you were in decimal degree format it can be changed in the settings of your gps or you can throw the coordinators I gave you into google and ask it to convert them to degrees minutes seconds and it will do so

No they were fine, it’s just slightly off or I was zoomed out a bit too far one or the other. It was still good enough to get me there. lol

 

[JeffVans]

That was a bit more than I expected...

 

[robert843]

View attachment 80390 View attachment 80391 That was a bit more than I expected...

Was that round trip? It’s def not 72 miles one way but it is a run.

 

[JeffVans]

Was that round trip? It’s def not 72 miles one way but it is a run.

Yeah that was round tripfrom the launch to Osprey and up to Bird Island and back to Osprey. With a small detour of taking the wrong way to Bird Island, I probably could have made it either way but wanted to stay in the official intracoastal.

 

[cameron.sprinkle]

Yeah that was round tripfrom the launch to Osprey and up to Bird Island and back to Osprey. With a small detour of taking the wrong way to Bird Island, I probably could have made it either way but wanted to stay in the official intracoastal.

Nice. I am looking to go south one day and north the next from North Myrtle Beach. Anyone know of a place to get non ethanol gas on land and not at the marina?

 

[cameron.sprinkle]

@JeffVans how long did it take you to make that run?

 

[JeffVans]

@JeffVans how long did it take you to make that run?

I'm not sure. I think we were out about 6 hours with the stop and everything.

 

[robert843]

Well I had planned to run from Myrtle Beach all the way to Surf City NC yesterday but the weather didn’t cooperate I think @JeffVans did in the afternoon. I went south to the old abandon coast guard station light house and Georgetown instead.

 

[JeffVans]

Yeah, I got rained on a tiny bit at the marina, then it was perfect weather up to Southport! Only ran into a couple idiots trying to kill me and one dude on a jet ski with 2 young kids flip his ski and get stuck upside down. lol he had a friend to help him flip it back over. Only other issue was someone yelling at me for going too fast in a fake no wake zone. Hahaha unfortunately I didn’t get any pics on the way up.

 

[cameron.sprinkle]

Well I had planned to run from Myrtle Beach all the way to Surf City NC yesterday but the weather didn’t cooperate I think @JeffVans did in the afternoon. I went south to the old abandon coast guard station light house and Georgetown instead.

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How long did the Georgetown run take you? Gonna do that run next week.

 

[cameron.sprinkle]

View attachment 80617 View attachment 80618 Yeah, I got rained on a tiny bit at the marina, then it was perfect weather up to Southport! Only ran into a couple idiots trying to kill me and one dude on a jet ski with 2 young kids flip his ski and get stuck upside down. lol he had a friend to help him flip it back over. Only other issue was someone yelling at me for going too fast in a fake no wake zone. Hahaha unfortunately I didn’t get any pics on the way up.

Where is osprey?

 

[robert843]

How long did the Georgetown run take you? Gonna do that run next week.

Just depends we’re your launching from if your coming from north Myrtle beach it’s probably almost 2 hours each way from Osprey Marina it’s probably only 45 min to an hour.

 

[cameron.sprinkle]

Just depends we’re your launching from if your coming from north Myrtle beach it’s probably almost 2 hours each way from Osprey Marina it’s probably only 45 min to an hour.

It will be north Myrtle. Just trying to time the Georgetown run. Got a buddy coming up for a day and he has a 2hr drive home and to work the next day. Didn’t want to keep him to late from getting back.