CRUISIN' WITH THE CHARLESTON Y.C.

As Summer arrived, and our other activities allowed, we made a few local cruises with our friends at the Charleston Yacht Club. We keep Jewel in Charleston, where we visit with friends, some of whom are shown in Characteristic Poses.


One of our favorite locations is to Moise Island...a small spot of land in the vast Lowcountry wetlands off the Intracoastal Waterway. It's a place for cookouts, and excess of food and drink. Nothing succeeds like excess, and the attitude in this sign more or less gets it right.

Eric starting the stew. Everyone else is drinking. He's cooking.

Every club outing has a Go To Guy...ours is John Buck. Need a hand docking? John's there. Have some problem anchoring? John's scoped out the best places. Cooking? John. I complained that I left my cigars on Jewel, and in two minutes, who's there with a cigar? John Buck. He pretends to be a gruff old man, but he's a pussycat. Prob'ly pissed at me for telling.

Contrary to popular opinion, we do actually have boats, and we travel to places in them. Here, looking over Jewel's bowrail on the way to Moise.

Laura Davis, a fine friend who just retired from teaching was honored by her husband Carroll at a party for the Club at a cruise to Beaufort, S.C. These pictures, taken on the dock, show the ambience of the place. Note the excess among the partying yachtspersons. Let's hear it for excess.

We Bad! Red and Mike

There are informal get togethers too....a couple of weeks ago, the same guys got a small cruise out to Bass Creek, off the Stono River a couple of hours from Charleston. More excess, lies, food, good times....but some additional folks.

Ginny's alive in the morning....that's the good news...the bad news is....she might be the only one.

Rumor has it that Toby found a magic potion.

High level conference being held on the beach.

On of the subjects of discussion when we travel with friends is whether or not it's really "fair" for us to have all this fun while our children are home raising babies, changing diapers, working and being responsible. The concensus of this meeting is: "No, it's not fair and who cares?"