I am back on my boat. I took a break and went home for
the month of December through to after New Years Day.
If I have good weather I can complete the trip in 4 days and be back in
my home port.
We left Panama City at 6:40am. It was a cool morning with
a light wind and the water was calm.
Got out into St. Andrews Sound and back on the ICW. There
was no boat traffic.
When we went by Tyndall AFB a dozen jets took off and it
was loud. We traveled 63 miles and on the way to the marina in Apalachicola we passed a fishing boat that caught my eye.
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Pete joined me for this leg of the trip |
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Evening sunset |
At 9 pm we saw lights coming upriver and it was a set of
20 barges with 2 tugs. one in the front and a tug in the rear.
The next morning we left Apalachicola at 6:30am (still central time). There was a slight
chop and it was 41 degrees. It felt colder on the water. We passed a dredge in the channel.
Today was a
shorter trip, 4 hours, and we arrived at Carrabelle and the C-Quarters Marina. We are back on Eastern Standard Time.
Carrabelle is the end of the Intracoastal Waterway on the Florida panhandle.
You can pick it back up at Tarpon Springs on Florida’s west coast. Tonight the temperature was dropping below 30 degrees and there were gusts of up to 35 mph winds.
A stray cat that found a home at the marina office.
We had arrived at low tide and made it a little difficult
getting into the marina. Overnight the tide got even lower, so much so that the
boat beside us hit bottom. Unfortunately, due to the weight of the boat, the rudder
block was forced through the hull enough to cause a leak. The boat was taking
on water and their bilge pump was running constantly. The boat had to be taken
out of the water to be repaired.
Some windy and cold days are in the forecast for this week so we'll have
another travel delay as we're waiting for a better weather window to cross the
gulf.