What a great day yesterday, last night, and this morning.  It's almost 1pm on Saturday. It's sunny and around 60 degrees and we are motoring at about 6 knots up the waterway, north of Brunswick.  Our destination for the night is only about 25 miles north (about 15 miles north of our current position). We will be anchoring just south of Doboy Island, just inside Doboy inlet.  Tomorrow, we plan to go outside and will likely motorsail up to the inlet at the south end of Hilton Head.

Coming in yesterday, we ran head into a huge (Maine to Florida) line of thunderstorms that produced headwinds in excess of 60 knots and driving rain.  Thank goodness for the Pintita's sturdy enclosure.  It lasted about 30 minutes and we were very fortunate to be inside the inlet so the seas never had much of a chance to build.  However, we had the engine at 3,000 rpm and were still doing only a little over 4 knots.  We docked at Brunswick Landing Marina about 1pm.  What a really nice marina.  The dockmaster, Sheri was a real gem.  It was nice to get in early and take somewhat of a break since we had just finished a 3 day passage.  Later in the afternoon, I did a load of laundry and downloaded my Plan2Nav chart plotter app onto Captain Phil's smart phone (see below).  We went to dinner at Foxy's Pizza in downtown Brunswick.  It was a 6 or 7 minute walk from the boat.  It was the only place in town that showed any kind of life but it was lively and fun.  Good beer (Tarripin Mo Hoo) and pizza (buffalo wing and blue cheese) made it great.

Captain Phil has been coming along at erasing his "analog captain" label given by Dewey a couple weeks ago.  Over the last two weeks, he has been asking more and more frequently to use the charting app on my phone to get into and out of a number of tight inlets and reefs.  Last night, I downloaded the app and charts onto his LG phone with a 6" screen.   Today, he beginning to concede that there is some considerable usefulness to the device (other than as a phone and to look at photos of his new granddaughter). 

It's now almost 6pm. We pulled into an anchorage on the south side of Doboy island on the west side of Doboy inlet.  A strong ebbing current is pulling us out toward the inlet and the wind is trying to blow us the other way.  it's a pretty weird sight - small breaking waves blowing from the stern to the bow.  The plan is to weigh anchor at around 7am and head outside (offshore) for a 50 mile motorsail up to Ossabaw inlet (about 15 miles south of Savannah).