Our generator has been acting up since the 170 mile overnight trip across the Gulf from the Panhandle to Tarpon Springs. Today it decided to quit all together, period. No sweat, the fridge will stay cold through the day and the engines charge the batteries while we are underway. The only inconvenience is no hot breakfasts. We can live without hot breakfast's, but coffee is required. I have a small portable gas powered generator on board to charge the batteries in an emergency which we unpacked to power the coffee pot. I hoped it had enough power and Ken said, " If it won't power a coffee pot what good is it". Apparently the generator isn't any good. The safety switched kicked out each time we plugged the pot in. I even cut the wires to the safety switch and it still wouldn't get the job done. We drank "Arnold Palmer" iced tea throughout the day.
We travelled 115 miles today to reach Fernandina Marina (say that three times). With only 10 miles to go we entered what we refer to as "Sandy Bend". As we rounded the bend we saw a sail boat laying on it's side in the middle of the river, a little further up there was a power boat completely out of the water on a sand bar with a tow boat working to get it back into the water. It was shortly after that the we joined the crowd when we bottomed out on a sand bar. Fortunately we were travelling at 1 MPH and we were able to back off and find a slightly deeper section of river. Never a dull moment.
This is Jacks last day aboard, he is flying home from Jacksonville. Kenny, Mo, and I will be in Georgia tomorrow.
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A perfect morning.
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High hopes for a hot cup of coffee.
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Downtown St Augustine looks like a great place to tour.
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Victim 1 at "Sandy Bend".
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Victim 2 at "Sandy Bend", you can see the prop marks in the sand.
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Sunset at Fernandina Marina.
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Red sky at night, sailors delight.
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A great crew.
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