Boy the super moon phase was with us today. We left St Augustine at 7am expecting our longest day of the trip -- 64 miles to Rockhouse Creek in New Smyrna just south of Daytona.
When we left we were on the rising tide and almost immediately hit 8+kts. Very unusual. We enjoyed high 7s till about 11am then around Flagler Beach dropped to 5.8 - 6.0 for about 30 minutes then right back up to high 6s and 7s. We expected to take 10 hours -- we did it in 8!! We were in just before 3pm. My eyes were still quite tired but it was a GREAT RUN.
The only problem area was around the Mantanzas inlet. The buoys are confusing. After Green 81 there are 4 can buoys called 81 A B C and D, then immediately followed by Red 82. The chart and magenta line were all on the wrong side of these buoys so we ignored the chart and followed the buoys which were scary since there was little room between the green cans and the shore. We made it through near high tide and saw nothing below 9'.
The rest of the day was just staying in the channel.
I had to anchor at the north end of Rockhouse Creek because there were already 3 sailboats here. It gets shallow very fast there but we were just off low tide and rising and we had 6.4 feet or better under the boat.
We look out over the Ponce Inlet from here so if the sky is clear we will have a GREAT view of the super moon tonight provided the bugs let us. At 4pm the no see ums are so bad I had to go below.
They had thick fog here this morning so we might be delayed in are run to Titusville tomorrow but if no fog we can be there around noon and go get some 1/2 and 1/2. I've got just enough for breakfast tomorrow.
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