From: Steve Ewing 

On Thu, 13 May 2004 21:22:38 -0400, janel  wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 2004 09:21:50 -0400, Richard B. 
> wrote in message news::
>
>> No more.  Sure miss seeing those big boats coming into the harbor.
>>
>
> Once, my ex put the boat in at the canal on Santee-Cooper, went down
> through the lock and on down the Cooper River, past Mepkin Abbey,
> through the Naval Base and on into the harbor.  The whole trip down
> and back up the river was a lot of fun - interesting seeing the area
> from that perspective rather than from the roads.  When we went
> through the Naval Base, Reagan was coming in later that day for some
> function, so everything was all decorated with flags flying from the
> subs and ships.  There were a number of patrol boats in the river, and
> my ex cautioned me not to pick up the camera or the binoculars.

You oughta try it in something 425 feet long, drawing 32 feet.  What a
convoluted trip-- legs only a few hundred feet long, pilots that wait for a
particular stump to line up with a telephone pole to mark a turn, and long
as heck.  We went past the regular Naval Base on up to the Naval Weapons
Station, near Goose Creek (yah-hoo!).  After that, everything else
(especially the Firth of Clyde/Holy Loch) was easy.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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