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These are all the Blogs posted on Wednesday, 13 April, 2016.
FL to CT - Day 19
Jacksonville, FL to Brunswick, GA
We left Sisters Creek this morning at 0800 and headed north on the ICW... destination planned for today is Brunswick, GA... Yeah! we will finally be out of Florida.

It was a little foggy when we left but cleared quickly... visibility was never an issue. Tide was gong out so we had current against us as we left and it would be near low tide when we hit some of the trouble areas before Fernandina Beach.

Virtually, no boat traffic today... guess the weather kept most people at the dock... cloudy with the clouds hanging low and very windy... 20 to 30 knots all days out of the NE. This meant we would not be doing St. Andrews Sound/Inlet... we took an alternate route that takes a little longer but would calm... we heard a report over the VHF that the waves in the inlet were 7 feet... NOT DOING THAT!

The alternate route takes you off the ICW about 11nm from St. Andrews at Floyd Creek... Satilla River... Dover Creek... Dover Cut... Umbrella Creek and dumps you into Jekyll Sound about 8nm north of St. Andrews. It was a rising tide and most of the route we had good water... couple of places we would not of made it at anything but high tide... The center of Dover Cut we hit a spot less than 6 feet deep and exiting Umbrella Creek we ran at idle speed and drug the bottom for about 1/8 mile... was not sure of we were gong to make it through this past spot... but, luckily we did... :)

We did see a lot of wild pigs and eagles... the pigs scurried away before we could get close enough for a photo... but did manage to get one photo of two eagles perched on a stake before they flew.

Jekyll Creek which is always an issue was a breeze at near high tide... typically we hit Jekyll Creek at near low tide and push through the mud in a several places.

We arrived to our destination for the night at approximately 1700. We docked at Brunswick Landing Marina right next to the office at N31°09.622', W081°29.991'. We traveled today for 9 hours covering 60.5 nautical miles averaging 6.7 knots.

After docking we fueled SAILS taking on 1035 gallons of diesel... took an hour to complete... very slow pumps... :(
Posted at 6:26 PM by:Jay
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