Day 263, May 3rd, 2010
My day to drive!! (We're still holding to our plan of alternate days at the helm. We both enjoy being captain for the day and on our day off we read our books in between supplying the cap'n with food and drinks and managing the jib if need be.)
Another beautiful day - hot sunshine with lots of wind from the south! Perfect! Jib was out all day as we meandered up the ICW through the marshes. I kept John busy jibing the jib so he hardly had time to read a couple of pages consecutively!! We were lucky too with the tides - we hit the shallow areas (Jekyll Island and Little Mud River) on a rising tide, and the currents seemed to push us along too. At one point we were going out one of the Sounds at 8.3 knots!!! Good old Periwinkle!! (Hull speed 6.5kn.)
We finally called it a day around 6:30 p.m. when we reached a lovely spot called Cattle Pen Creek. One other sail boat was anchored there - a young couple heading south. I was totally exhausted and could only come up with egg on beans on toast for supper, an old English standby!! By the time we'd finished our chores we climbed into bed!!
My day to drive!! (We're still holding to our plan of alternate days at the helm. We both enjoy being captain for the day and on our day off we read our books in between supplying the cap'n with food and drinks and managing the jib if need be.)
Another beautiful day - hot sunshine with lots of wind from the south! Perfect! Jib was out all day as we meandered up the ICW through the marshes. I kept John busy jibing the jib so he hardly had time to read a couple of pages consecutively!! We were lucky too with the tides - we hit the shallow areas (Jekyll Island and Little Mud River) on a rising tide, and the currents seemed to push us along too. At one point we were going out one of the Sounds at 8.3 knots!!! Good old Periwinkle!! (Hull speed 6.5kn.)
We finally called it a day around 6:30 p.m. when we reached a lovely spot called Cattle Pen Creek. One other sail boat was anchored there - a young couple heading south. I was totally exhausted and could only come up with egg on beans on toast for supper, an old English standby!! By the time we'd finished our chores we climbed into bed!!
Pictures above show a Naval installation at King's Bay Channel, where we passed a submarine and other Navy ships. You can't see the sub very well at all -left hand side of the first picture.
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