TripSailor.com® Sailing Blogs

We took off early this morning (after 7am) and headed up the Intracoastal. We were still nervous about the engine, but after about an hour we started to relax. So far we are making good progress – about 40 miles after 6 hours, and we still have about 6 hours to go!

Later entry …. we really did well today – covered over 80 miles, and went well into the night. What struck us most was the complete absence of human signs - we hardly saw any houses, only passed about 5 boats the whole day – the areas is very secluded aand unpopulated. Reminds me a lot of the Florida everglades, flat and marshy on either side of the creeks. We also saw lots of Dolphins cavorting around everywhere.

At about 10pm, we dropped anchor, in fact both anchors, fore and aft, to keep our position in the strong tidal currents in the ICW. We had a good nights rest – I woke a couple times to check the anchors, but we were fine.