Friday evening, Lu goes with Dawn, Louis and I head out the bay and way out the breakwalls....probably two+ miles. Up goes the sails and a course for St Augustine. One hundred ninety miles. With speeds in the sevens and eights we realize we will arrive in the middle of the night. The temperature rises as we get further offshore. Comfortable. We are on a broad reach which means the wind is from the side and back. A bit of rock and roll but fun. Sat night brings a little less wind and as we get within forty miles it drops way down. A good thing as we must waste some time so as to not arrive too early. Daylight arrives and we see another couple boats to follow in. This inlet is known for shoaling and lots of running aground. Stay between the marks, watch the chartplotter and the depth sounder and....no problem.
190 miles, 36 hours later and we are in tee shirts. Lu, Chester and Dawn arrive Sun afternoon. A Dark and Stormy and life is good.
As I write this I am in shorts and tee shirt. The sun is out and our fan is running. Comfortable!
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Today we made the decision to stay here in St Augustine for the month of Dec.
Greetings. this is Dean from the s/v Autumn Borne. You're just behind us now... we're down in Titusville, FL (more or less for the month of DEC). NIce BLOG!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the ocean passage...
See YOU down the line.