St Augustine-again

We spent 3 nights in St Augustine. Did some provisioning, laundry, daily showers, walked the historic town every day and ate out (a lot). Just two slips down from us at the marina we saw Greg and his boat Longtail, we met him at the Old Bahama Bay Marina the night before we jumped back to the states. Just tells you how small of a world it is.

We made our way just outside of Jacksonville and was able to stay at a friend’s marina/slip that we met in the Abaco’s for the night, it was great getting visit and talk about our time in the Bahamas.  

We decided that we would set ourselves up for a overnight sail to Beaufort, SC, the next morning, it would take 24 hours but get us closer to home.  We set out at 10am to find out that the seas were rougher than ALL the weather and nautical websites indicated. We used sail flow, weather channel, predict wind and passage weather, none got it right.  We were told that the winds would be 5-8knt, with seas 2-4ft at 7-8 seconds.  Sounds good huh, nope they were so wrong, it was so rough that we had to come in at the next inlet after 5hrs. We came in at St. Mary’s GA and found our way to the ICW but not before we had a surprise greeting, a sub under way.

We pushed hard as we had really lost time and did not drop anchor until 8pm.  We are now committed to the ICW for the rest of our trip home as weather is forecasted to start blowing 25 knots for the next week.