Monday, June 3, 2013

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Day #43: I write this aboard Nellie as she quietly rides on her mooring off St. Augustine, FL. As today's picture attests, it was a Jekyll and Hyde weather day . Nellie's not had good luck here. Past log-book entries comment on the wind, the rain, or both.

Last night's bow and stern anchors worked as we hoped. They kept us out of the channel and into the prevailing wind. A downside was that we were held beam-to the wakes from the channel's traffic. The little boats rolled us, but not alarmingly so. When a big boat created what looked like a title wave, the bow-thruster saved the day by pointing us into it. Turning into a wake is second nature while underway, but at anchor?

With the weekend over we had the waterway to ourselves and it was a peaceful 35nm cruise to St. Augustine. Today's run ups our total to 687nm. DBH