Mount Pleasant Magazine 6.4

t’s another steamy, sultry

Saturday morning along the Carolina coast.

The blazing June sun has not yet shown its

glowing face above the horizon, but Captain

Wayne Magwood has already been on the

water for a few hours, preparing to repeat a

ritual that has ruled his life for nearly 60 years.

Before long, he and his crew of two will guide his 68-foot

boat, “Winds of Fortune,” to his “secret spot,” where they

hope to find a bounty of the tasty crustaceans that have

defined Mount Pleasant’s Shem Creek and the menus of

Lowcountry restaurants for interminable decades.

As he has done since he was no more than a toddler,

Magwood is looking for shrimp, and he and his crew are

hoping for a huge haul that for a day at least will bring

By Brian Sherman

Sailing

into the

SunriSe

Now 63, Wayne

Magwood has

been shrimping

since he was 4

years old.

Shrimping On Shem Creek