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Grounding and centerboard
It's always something...Hannah was up all night last night getting the boat ready to sail and only got about 2 hours of sleep.
We left this morning at 06:30 and motored up the ICW. It was a really nice day. Partly cloudy and warm but not too hot with a good breeze from the motoring. We saw dolphins, tons of birds, fishermen and boaters on a Sunday afternoon. We saw two flamboyants of pink flamingoes and one single one flying across the channel. The country side is beautiful and certain areas were dotted with really nice homes on the river. We had Bagels and cream cheese for breakfast and Pasta salad for lunch. Then Hannah went to sleep till about 1800.
At around 13:30 we ran hard aground near green 47. It was not as charted and neither was the 4 foot depth. It took us about 30 minutes to get ourselves off the mud. Then I was skittish the rest of the trip.
Sam and I took turns at the wheel but some places were really narrow and windy and I took the wheel back. We finally anchored about 1900 near Cumberland Island Georgia and Hannah made fried burritoes and fried potatoes. We are finishing dinner now and will visit with Anamaashi later.
We are tracking the storm coming up through the gulf now. We have decided Brunswick will be as good a place as any. This storm is going to hit the entire east coast. We cannot run from it. So we have to pick a good hole to hide in.
