May 3, 2021, St. Augustine Municipal Marina Moorning

We have had a great time so far on this trip and I have learned to tie us off to a cleat, catch a mooring ball, and I am now the Vanna White of anchoring.  However, I have failed since I have yet to drive the boat.  The currents and tides have been insane in Georgia & northern Florida so Ron has literrally taken the helm for all of this.  We have traversed the intercoastal north to Jekyll Island, stayed and hiked Cumberland Island, stayed in Fernandina Beach, then worked our way back to haul out the boat.  

I am grateful we have done well since when we saw a boat came in last night they were completely de-masted.  From what I now know, when you get demasted, you must cut the mast off and let it go into the water, remove the sail first and try to save that, and apparently, we own the tool to do that in case it happens to us.  I cannot imagine but I know Ron was very afraid of this as we traversed the intercoastal bridges since we were VERY close on a few.  In fact, one we scrapped our antennae!  It is a $30K-$50K repair and they had a 42 foot Lagoon.  I felt so bad for them…until…they took the only place we could have taken our boat this evening to get our haul out done tomorrow.  Ugh.  Of course.

Ron is very stressed about the haul out and frankly, I don’t blame him.  Guess we will just see how it goes.

Demasting sucks I bet.

We ran out of beer and made a sign