We’re anxious to get going this morning. The sooner we get through the first trouble
spot, Jekyll Creek, the greater the possibility of us making it to the next
trouble spot, Little Mud River, at a
fairly high tide also. So…Randy Prentiss
was walking the dock and came to assist us in getting off. It’s tricky here along the ICW with its
current. So at 7:45 am, Randy took our
bow line and wrapped it around the cleat at our midship. The stern line and the spring lines were on
deck. Chuck motored slowly forward to
starboard(dock) which whipped our stern out into the creek. Randy then gave me the bow line while Chuck
motored hard in reverse….it worked!
We motored up Jekyll Creek staying 50 feet to the west of G
19. I had this written on my nav charts
from the fall. We were out of the creek
and through St Simons Sound, heading north and under Lanier Bridge by 9 am. We had currents working against us while we
were crossing the sound but once across and up the next river, the currents are
now in our favor. As of last night, we
weren't
sure if we would get to the Mud in time but all is well. High tide at the Little Mud River today is at
10:45 am and it looks like we’ll be motoring through that cut at 11:00. What luck!
I even called and spoke to a SeaTow captain about his knowledge of this
river. He said we’d have no
problems. Just stay in the middle all
the way through. By now, we caught up
with the 2 sailboats that were way ahead of us this morning…sv/Grey Ghost and
sv/ Gorgeous Girl…we’ve not met them nor spoken with them either, but we’ll
hang with them as far as they decide to go!
Our plans are to get as close to Hell’s Gate as possible so in the
morning we’ll be there 2-3 hours before high tide.
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| Gorgeous Gal out in front, then Grey Ghost |
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| still trying to photograph a dolphin |
We are having such a good day with the currents and winds
that we both decided to push hard to the Redbird Anchorage…77.5 miles from
Jekyll Harbor Marina. We stayed here
last November with Al and Colette on sv/Euphoria and we liked the
anchorage. Both of the other two boats
called it a day. Sv, Gorgeous Gal at
South Newport River and sv/Grey Ghost at the Big Tom Creek Anchorage. Not us, we made our final destination and
anchored at 7 pm. We’re not going to be
alone tonight. There is a huge trawler
and a double masted schooner already hunkered in for the night. The creek has a high current so we know when
the tide turns, we’ll turn 180 degrees. That’s okay since the winds are going to be
mild throughout the night. We are both
tired from our eleven hour day…..and we'll be up with the sun tomorrow morning.
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| sunset at Redbird Creek |
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| anchored up Redbird Creek in salt marsh |
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