Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Tuesday, January 14

Today, I guess we officially set sail......well not really sail since we motored.  We left Two-Way Marina in Darien, GA and motored to St. Simon's Island.  We are currently at Morningstar Marina - really nice with some really large boats, and a nice restaurant.  Food was good, but I could give the oyster shucker a lesson.

Why did we motor?  The weather this morning was not good - cold (50 deg F) and rain with a 25 knot wind on our nose all of the way.  We were very glad we put the remaining canvas on the boat at 9pm last night - we were tempted to go with just the bimini and dodger.....but the full enclosure was much appreciated today!   We got out of the Altamaha River into the ICW which was quite narrow at times.  it took about 3 hours to motor.  We felt the effects of tides making 7.5 knot easily with the flow, but laboring at 4.5 knot when we turned upstream.

We passed under our first fixed bridge - 64 ft clearance.......60'-6" mast with antennas and other stuff up on the top..........How do you do it?  Grit your teeth, hope you read the clearance right, look ahead, and let someone else take video!

 
And St. Simon's Marina is nice!   Many nice boats!
 

3 comments:

  1. Yikes! That looked close. But Salty knew you'd make it. Que vaya bien. Safe travels!

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  2. OMG! Holy cow that looks close on the video. Great shot, my heart jumped watching it, so probably good Neil was steering. Did you check the tide depth changes? Wondering if the bridge clearance is very different between high tide and low tide....

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