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Southport, NC to Myrtle Beach

JeffVans

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@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. :mad: 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.
 

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I made it down here but unfortunately not via boat. :mad: 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 allo_O!
 

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JeffVans

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@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.
 

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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
 

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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
 

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JeffVans

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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.
 

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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?
 

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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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JeffVans

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E5C37244-C46A-413C-9537-5B1FA3C61470.jpeg F8F2E3C7-CB29-4D42-81A0-70384668D715.jpeg 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.
 

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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?
 

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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.
 

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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.
 
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