Friday, June 7, 2013

Chocolate Cake

Day 47: Having 'survived' Andrea, last night we saw lots of rain and winds in the 30 knot range, it was time to celebrate. And what better way than with chocolate cake (Dad's funny face is to remind John Howell what here's missing ;-). The cake was just one of the good things Bicki whipped up while we were underway.

High winds delayed our departure until 11am; even then we were seeing 20kts. The good news is the winds pushed us along. It took us 1-1/2 months to reach escape velocity but with today's wind-assist we did it, we finally left Florida. Georgia's waterways are so different than Florida's. Gone are the condos. In fact, gone is almost all signs of habitation. Instead there are open grasslands and widely spaced, tree covered hammocks. It feels like we've traded NYC for Yellowstone.

We covered 56nm and dropped the hook in the North River, some 5nm ENE of Darien, GA. This ups the trip total to 804nm. DBH