We departed from Jacksonville this morning at 0705 and spent the day with yo-yoing currents… our speed ranging from less than 4 knots tp over 10 knots… hate the 4 knots… love the 10 knots.

Weather was ok… overcast for most of the day but not windy at all which made it very hot and humid.

This was the first time in a couple of years that we were able to cross St. Andrews Sound following the ICW. Last few trips it has been too windy and rough and we were forced to take the alternate route. This trip it was calm... very nice!

Plan for today was to fuel SAILS in Brunswick and continue on stopping at some anchorage around sunset. We should have known better than to try and make a plan. We were fueling at Brunswick Landing Marina.

As we left the north end of Jekyll Creek and headed up the ship channel toward Brunswick we received a weather alert… tornado warnings with winds up to 70 knots for the Brunswick area. We still had 45 minutes to reach the marina and we were at bottom of the current yo-yo… 4.5 knots. It did not look bad but checking radar you could see what was approaching.

We arrived to the marina at 1530 and pulled in to the fuel dock… they handed me the diesel hose and I asked them to turn it on high speed… WHAT! NO HIGH SPEED! That along with the approaching weather killed our plan to continue north after fueling. It took us almost 90 minutes to fuel SAILS. Luck was with us for the weather though and we did not see anything from it till after we were safely docked for the night.

Our position at the marina N31°09.179’, W081°30.000’. We traveled today for 8 hours and 25 minutes covering 54.95 nautical miles averaging 6.5 knots.