Sunday, May 2, 2010

Friday 30 April, Pine Island – South of Jekyll Sound Fl, USA, felt like a lot of Miles.

Up early and headed for Fernandina Beach. We had planned to grab a mooring ball in Fernandina but they had a shrimp festival going on so both mooring field and Marina was full to the brim.

Oh well, we refueled the boat and kept heading north.

Maria the Navigator consulted Skipper Bob, a publication that lists and grades anchorages along the ICW, and came up with a few suggestions for a spot to anchor for the night.

She pointed out that there seemed to be a good spot at mile 710, the foolish skipper Jorgen wanted to keep heading north and ignored the advice of the navigator.

Skipper Bob recommend a spot at 704 at a creek named – Bollicky creek and skipper Jorgen thought it looked excellent about 300’ wide in the widest area with 12’ of water at MLLW.

Said and done, we drove the fat ship Q into the skinniest little creek she had ever been in and proceeded up to the widest area were all charts said we’d see 12’ of water at low tide.

You guessed it – we ran aground at 5 feet of water where it should have been 12 feet.

Oh well, we are getting experienced at running aground, opened a couple of beers and waiter for high tide. Somehow a dolphin managed to swim by us on the skinny side- very strange indeed.

One hour later we were off and headed north to and anchorage just south of Jekyll Sound,

Had the hook down at 19:00 and Whiskey poured at 19:01.

Stressful couple of days…. Definitely no barnacles on Q’s bottom at this stage

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