Here Comes The Night

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Israel Hands

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Yesterday evening it was flat calm. Took the new-old boat out for an exercising of the engine. Just me and a few seagulls and pelicans enjoying the last hour of light.

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Jud - s/v Sputnik

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I’ve always like this pic because the night was dramatic.  I’d poked my head out as the wind whistled increasingly dramatically in the rigging, and we watched excitedly as the night closed in around us.  Anchored in a very open, exposed anchorage (the only kind there) just south of Savary Island, three of us crammed into our little Cal 20.  Daugher about 13, had been dinghy sailing a few years, learning the ropes.  Anchored out there in what sorta felt like the “middle of the ocean”, a front blew through with 25+ knots, the sky went purple, orange and blue as the sun set, and the little boat shook and pitched like crazy - but we had a big anchor and over a hundred feet of rope and chain out, set in mud/sand.  The kid got a feeling then what it might be like at sea, at nightfall, with a dramatic sky and pitching boat.  I think that hooked her :). Plus the sky was “pretty”...

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Ishmael

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Jud - s/v Sputnik said:
I’ve always like this pic because the night was dramatic.  I’d poked my head out as the wind whistled increasingly dramatically in the rigging, and we watched excitedly as the night closed in around us.  Anchored in a very open, exposed anchorage (the only kind there) just south of Savary Island, three of us crammed into our little Cal 20.  Daugher about 13, had been dinghy sailing a few years, learning the ropes.  Anchored out there in what sorta felt like the “middle of the ocean”, a front blew through with 25+ knots, the sky went purple, orange and blue as the sun set, and the little boat shook and pitched like crazy - but we had a big anchor and over a hundred feet of rope and chain out, set in mud/sand.  The kid got a feeling then what it might be like at sea, at nightfall, with a dramatic sky and pitching boat.  I think that hooked her :). Plus the sky was “pretty”...

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Why were you anchored south of Savary when you could have gone two miles into Lund?

 
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Jud - s/v Sputnik

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Ishmael said:
Why were you anchored south of Savary when you could have gone two miles into Lund?
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Is that a rhetorical question? :)

Actually, it’s more like 9-ish miles to Lund since you need to go around Mystery Reef and then back up.  But we tend not to like to not go to “outposts of civilization” unless we have to.  (I’ve actually never been to Lund until two summers ago - and never realized until this past summer you can anchor there?  I think?  I always thought it was just a dock.)

 
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accnick

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Heading to Florida just went out Charleston harbor looks like a motoring day or days. Five knots on the nose one foot sea. In a favorable current right now, have enough fuel to make Fernandina Florida Saint Mary’s entrance. 
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That 150 nm trip can be pleasant in the right conditions. It also saves you a lot of time meandering through the swamps of SC/GA on the ICW.

Last time I did it on a sailboat we left Charleston early one morning, and arrived at Fernandina the next morning.

I haven't been in Fernandina in a few years, but it looks like the marina has undergone a significant upgrade. 

Don't know if you are going outside after Fernandina, or inside on the ICW, but there used to be some thin water inside in that stretch between Fernandina and the St. John, as well as immediately after crossing the St. John.

 
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