We left Beaufort SC on Wednesday morning around 9 am. The weather called for winds to be 10 to 15 and die down to 5 knots during the later part of the day. Well the forecasters were wrong.... winds picked up as soon as we got out of the channel (13 miles out) to about 25 knots with gusts over 30. Seas were very rough, the worst I have experienced! We new at that point it was going to be a very long night. We continued on our coarse to Jacksonville Florida. Waves were somewhere around 20 feet and fairly close together. After many prayers were said by both Pat and myself, the winds finally subsided around 6 am on Thursday morning. We still had seas of 8 fett or better. We certainly made good time surfing down 25 foot swells at 11 knots. We made it to the St. Johns River channel entrance at 9 am on Thursday morning, of course on an outgoing tide with the winds from the east, however, we made it. We have never been so tired... we pulled into anchor, emailed a few friends and crashed for the evening. We then had an easy day and a half to St. Augustine where we are now. I am sorry I don't have any pictures from this leg, our camera was submerged when waves crashed into the cockpit unexpectedly. Fortunately the marina had a courtesy car and we went to walmart today to get a new camera. More to come