Touchin' dat Mud

Daytona to St Augustine: 4 Aug 09

Fort Matanzas

We had been doing soooooo well!  We had been soooooo careful to stay within the lines!  Smack! Bang!  Damn - we hit mud at a shoal between badly placed green markers (G81B) to red at Matanzas Inlet.  It was so bad we managed to connect at least 4 times before carefully feeling our way into deeper water.  By deeper, I mean at least 5-6 feet to get across the bar. I tell you, we said some nasty things about channel markers and their keepers that day!   

WJ3 and her motley crew were not happy campers!  Life had become depressingly focused on damages and repairs since entering the ICW.  We thought this was the “safe” route to travel north.  Don’t believe ‘em! 

We later learned that Matanzas is Spanish, meaning "massacre"...oh, fruit!!! 

  

 

From: Daytona, FL  Lat/Long: 29 11N  81 00W  Date/Time: 4/8/09: 0650

To: St Augustine, FL  Lat/Long: 29 53N  81 18W Date/Time: 4/8/09: 1530

Time Taken: 54nm (8.5hrs)  Distance (this year): 2909nm (398.5hrs)

Distance Total (since 2008): 2858nm  (576.5hrs)   Fastest Speed: 5-7kts**

Weather: kts;  Seas ft;  Swell; Evening thunderstorms continue except for last 2 nights

(** Motor sailing; 12 fixed bridges; 1 overhead power lines; hit ground (about 4 times at Matanzas Inlet, Mile 794).  Danger, Will Robinson!