Thursday, November 15, 2012
Long day today on the AICW, because of the next AICW trouble spot…. That is the Little Mud River.
The Cruisers Net says “only DO the Little Mud River passage at mid-rising or High Tides”. So, … Today we pulled the anchor in the New River and headed out early…. And continued south until nearly dark.
We anchored at 1710 hours in the Crescent River (N31 29.361 W081 19.759), at the south end of the Creighton Narrows. That part of the trip was a bit of a thrill too… Doing the Creighton Narrows at dead low tide… But we made it… the least depth we saw in the “Narrows was about 9.8 feet…. Not bad…
All day long we rode the “SUPER tides” that the news was talking about…(lunar, and wind). The water levels all the way down from the New River were super high…. In comparison to years past.
We again traveled along most of the day…. We were passed by some power catamarans, and a few large trawlers…but by and large traveled by ourselves…
Tomorrow we can now time our arrival at the Little Mud River… then once through the problem shoaling areas… hot foot it for the top of Cumberland Island (south of JekyLL Island).

We called our friend Kathleen today to see how her hip operation went…. Sounded like Rehab will take a little longer than the last time… but I guess that’s normal.
We also talked to Rodney Carlson; The “Glenlyon” has been sold. Wow. Good and Bad…news…
We called Phil Macmillen to see how the rudder repair was going on the s/v Acadia, but only got a voice mail….
There’s still some shoaling areas to traverse, for us… but each day we’re farther south…
Today’s weather, though, really “sucked”; 50’s with heavy rain periods; and winds up to 24 knots.
Small Craft warnings were still posted until tonight…. Fun WOW!