Belle Isle was a little too preppy for me. When I ran out of Winyah Bay (over 300 trips at night) we were commercial only and docked at Rainey Catheau’s over on the Sampit River. (I also ran a 95 foot converted dragger out of Georgetown Shrimp for a short while, but it was a bad deal.) I ran charters out of the old Inlet Port Marina in Murrells Inlet from 1978. The last charter that I ran was in September of 1984 on the 54 foot Sportfisherman, The Connie “D”. She burned off of Little River the next spring.
My grandfather owned Belle Isle marina and my dad did servicing for the yachts around the area.