Oct 25


New Brunswick to 60 North in a Marsh somewhere in GA


We tried our best to get out early but failed but we did start before the sun was fully up.  This made the first hour tough because of glare from sun.  After that is a normal day in the south part of the Atlantic intercostal area.


Today the scenery can only be described as unique to me at least. The land is flat and occasionally small clumps of trees of trees pop up.  Navigation is tough as the whole area looks the same and channels are hard to see due to reflections and glare.  There are shallows everywhere and tide is big in most checks more than 7 feet.  


The flock of south bound cruisers continued today with another 6 sightings. Fishing must be good as we saw about 15 small fishing boats out.  Then of course the dolphins are still following us around and we sighted 3 pods and 2 singles.  


We anchored tonight rather than completing the original plan to Sunbury as that would have 63 miles and we would not have gotten there till 6:00.  The last 7 miles of the ride would have had to be repeated the next morning to get back on track so pulled in a small creek and dropped a hook for the night.  We are a little too close to one shore for my comfort but in small creek that will happen.


Oct 26 


To Savana GA a total of 94 miles with OK gas average of 4.9 mile per gallon


After dinner sunset was great to see all the reds you could image.  The pictures do not do it credit.


After a very quite night with lots of stars and no Moon that I saw the day started.  Some how Dianne was moving before me and we were out of bed cooking breakfast at 6:45.  Therefore started before dawn.  We did see a boat moving before us and be paused at the anchor entrance I think because our anchor like confused him.  


Unlike Florida in GA only 3 out 25 boats failed to slow for us.  So not everyone is rude.  A couple of boats cut my bow but I guess when fighting tide it is understandable.  


Arrived at Marina before 1 and had the boat tanked, washed and bikes out for ride by 1:30.  That is when Dianne said she heard a water pump making a funny noise so she shut it off.  I when in and check and sure enough the hot water hose had blown out this time.  With the glue it was impossible to get the fitting off so I had cut it off on 3 sides as I had repair all three sides before.  Now the problem was the line was too short to put a new fitting into so extensions had to be installed on all three connections.  This work was done through a tiny port hole, in a tiny cupboard in a tiny toilet.  What a pain I believe it should be 15 cuss word job but with my skill I made it at least a 25 cuss word job.  But it is fixed.  So lucky it happened when in a port with a loaner car, a hardware store and with enough time to repair it.  Afterwards Dianne said lets go out to dinner and who was I to argue I am exhausted so off to bed.  










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