Great Travel Day

Yesterday was a hot humid stormy day as predicted. It was a good choice to stay at the marina.

A cold front came across yesterday and today was just beautiful. We left the marina early and motored on up to Daytona Beach under friendly cumulus clouds and anchored in the Halifax River just north of red 44. Oh it was a very good day. We had a favorable current most of the way -- only one bridge opening and we waited only 3 minutes! We hit all the trouble shoaling areas at just after high tide and saw no skinny water. Just a great travel day.

Lots of boats left the marina this morning all headed north. I think we were in a pack of 12 - 15 boats -- a combination of trawlers and sailboats. Unfortunately one sail boat came to grief just short of the Haulover canal. He was exhausting steam instead of water from the engine exhaust and obviously was overheating. I hailed him with the PA system and told him the bad news -- better I told him before the alarms went off and the engine seize up

The anchorage here after Red 44 is not as shown on the chart. There is no 14' water and deep water areas have shoaled in. Several boats in storage on moorings here. I would not recommend this area in the future. Try the deep area on the East side of the channel just before R44. I see a fine Cabo Rico 38 sitting there all by their lonesome.

Tomorrow will be a short 3 - 4 hour hop to Palm Coast. St Augustine is just too far for a single day and you need to work the tides.

Should be in early enough to enjoy the marina with light work and then off to St Augustine the following day.

Today the temperature is great. Started at 65 and headed up to 78 degrees -- low humidity and should be fine sleeping tonight on the hook.