We arrived in the St Augustine area this afternoon. So far we have traveled 393 nautical miles or 452 statute miles. The weather has been spectacular with comfortable temps and reasonable humidity for Fla. It always amazes me that on the boat we think of travel in a different scale than by by car or plane. In boating we do short daily hops of 50-70nm for the most part with an occasional overnight offshore.
As we travel closer to northern Fla the tides and currents change and become more pronounced. This morning we heard a Coast Guard advisory regarding Ft Mantanzas inlet and shoaling. They recommended avoiding this area at low tide with water depths of 3-4 ft, holytamole!
We crossed the inlet 2 hours before high tide and found two things. First the USCG had moved the green markers further to the west and the most problematic area near green 81 we had over 10' of water. For the majority of the time we had greater than 14'. So, after some angsting, everything worked out just fine.
Our next task was fueling and we ( ok, actually Jeannie) found a place in Fernandina Beach Fla., where the cost is close to 33 cents less than other areas and they will let us tie up to the dock for a fraction of the cost of other areas. Tomorrow we will be at our last stop in Fla. Sunday appears to be a good weather window and we will do a brief offshore stopping in Brunswick Ga. Afterwards the weather deteriorates a bit so we will travel north via the ICW and hope to be in Charleston by Thursday?? Looking forward to some very good eats.
As an aside we have left the love bugs behind us, thankfully. A few here and there are one thing, but a swarm is quite another. Took me a few hours yesterday to clean up the mess.
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