Sails Up

North of Saint Simon Island
ICW Georgia

We left our anchorage at dead low tide to run aground before we could get back in the waterway.  We hit at 4'8" again when our draft is 4'.  We sort of plowed our way through, turning our wheel first right then left while running the motor at 2000rpms. We eventually dug a trough to go through until we got in deeper water.  Lee rationalized we probably scraped off some unwanted barnacles.

We motored all morning but finally got some straight stretches and winds 10 to 20 kts after noon and sailed all afternoon.  Looks like tomorrow we won't have straight stretches in the afternoon to sail even if wind is good enough. Morning is usually calm and that is when we have the long straights.  The weather doesn't look promising for going off shore long enough to do us much good. So we will start early and make the best of it.

We made over 60 miles today. We went up one anchorage and it didn't seem as protected as it should have been so went on to the next place and anchored in a better protected place from the south winds.  Supposed to get in the high teens and we have gotten used to calm nights for sleeping.  The no seeums finally attacked Lee.  He said they were in his hair (what hair)., making his head itch.  About time they harassed someone besides me. A day when nothing breaks, go badly wrong or some other problem crops up is a good day on a boat. So we had a good day.