A Boating First!

The Savannah River runs adjacent to the city and leads to the Port of Savannah, which quite surprisingly, is the fourth busiest container port in the country.  The Westin's docks are located right on the river and container ships were passing all through the night.  Even though the ships went by at a very low rate of speed, the enormous size of the ships resulted in a night of bouncing around from the passing wakes.  

Nevertheless it was up early at 7:00 to begin preparing for our departure.  Fortunately the forecast called for only 1 - 2 foot following seas "outside" (in the ocean versus running "inside" along the Intercoastal Waterway) so our 90 mile trip which might take as much as 8 hours on the inside would be just 4 1/2 hours at our regular cruising speed of 20 knots.  It was such a beautiful cruising day that after over a 120 days of boating we achieved a boating first - we used the BBQ on the boat!  Nothing very exotic - just hot dogs - but nevertheless a first.

We arrived at the Golden Isles Marina with plenty of time to enjoy drinks on the flybridge before ubering the short distance to the center of the island for dinner at Bonefish before retiring for the night.