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Day #12: Underway early, with a purring engine, we looked forward to a 'routine' day. And the engine did purr, for two hours--then it didn't. The routine day? It wasn't. Every hour-and-a-half we dropped the hook, stopped the engine, and removed the air from the three fuel filters (a filter is pictured above). We can look forward to repeating this process until we fix the problem. Hey, there's a motivator! Oh well, cruising has been defined as fixing your boat in new and interesting places. To this saying we can add: and doing so every hour-and-a-half.

We dropped the hook for the evening in Port Royal, SC. Port Royal is just a few miles south of Beaufort. 47nm today, 3 anchorings, and 621nm total. DBH