We waited out the weekend at Cumberland island so that we wouldn't
have to deal with all the weekend boat traffic on the ICW. Just as we
are getting ready to get going, it starts raining. Great. The
anchorage at Cumberland island has a pretty strong current, so we had
two anchors out. Our boat had spun around several times over the
weekend so our two anchor rodes were wrapped around each other. After
about an hour of work in the rain we had both anchors up and were
underway. We crossed the border of Florida pretty early on and the
skies cleared up. We had a favorable current almost all day and could
have made it all the way to St. Augustine, but decided to stop at a
place called Pine Island about 10 miles to the north. As we pull into
the anchorage, we see another catamaran, a Manta named Caribbean Call.
They hailed us on the radio and complemented us on our boat. As it
turns out, they are hull #14. We are hull #17, so their boat is only
a few months older than ours.
Tuesday we headed into St. Augustine and took dockage at the city
marina. We stayed here last year and really liked it, but this time,
the bridge adjacent to the marina is under construction and they were
working on it all night making a lot of noise. It was a little
disconcerting watching them hoist these massive steel structures about
50 feet in front of the boat. I guess they weren't too worried about
dropping them though since there were guys standing under them as the
crane moved them around. We really like St. Augustine, but were glad
to get away from the construction. Tonight we are anchored in Daytona
Beach where we plan to stay for a few days to go ashore and look
around a bit.
Where we are:
Location=Daytona Beach, FL
Lat=29 12.040 N
Lon=81 00.387 W
