Day 19

We have arrived in Brunswick Georgia.  This is where “Rogue” will reside until sometime in middle January.  Rick and I will hang out here this week until Jan gets here on Saturday.  We will probably be home for the holidays the following Tuesday.  Meanwhile, the marina here is pretty decent.  The one thing Rick likes is they have free beer.  Go to the clubhouse and the tap is always on and the beer is cold. They also have cocktail hours; cruisers get together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday where they also have free wine.  The laundry is free, the beer is free, Wi-Fi is free, what’s not to like.  And, it’s just a short walk to “downtown” Brunswick.

We left this morning before 8:00 under cloudy skies and bit of a breeze.  The air was quite moderate, and got warmer as the day went on.  By this afternoon, the sun was out and the jackets were off.  It was in the 70’s here this afternoon, and it is still in the high 60’s now.  They are calling for rain and possible thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon, but by this Friday it will be in the 30’s at night with a high in the high 40’s.  Go figure.

Anyway, after yesterday, today’s trip was actually quite boring.  We motored along with no issues all day, trading off operating the boat, winding back and forth through the Georgia salt marshes.  Every once in a while we would see a house on the water, but no access to the house.  If you look at google there are no roads anywhere.  How do they get there.  There is usually a boat dock, so I guess access is only by water.  But you have to wonder how they get water, food, electricity, sewage etc.  If you live there, how would you get to work, or to any type of civilization?  Anything remotely resembling a town is miles and miles away.  All you can see, as far as you can see, is salt marsh. I actually thought we heard banjos a couple times.

Since we are here for a few days it’s time to do some things on the boat.  It really needs cleaned up on the outside; a little spit and polish will make it look pretty good again.  Out agenda each day will probably be something like wash and polish the portholes, go get a beer.  Clean the bridge, go get a beer.  Wash the deck, go get a beer.  I think you get the idea.

Today we went 68.1 miles for a total of approximately 914 miles.  Today’s trip took 7hrs. 8mins. The last several miles today were through St. Simons sound, and up the Brunswick River.  The tide was going out so as we made the turn to head up the Brunswick River, we were going against a very strong current fighting to get out of the sound and into the ocean.  I had the engines turning 1400 RPMs, a little faster than I usually run them, and when we made the turn, our speed dropped from 11+knots to as low as 7.2 knots.  The current must have been running a good 3 knots against us.  That is pretty fast, so it took us a while to get up the river and into the canal for the marina.  But we are here, so…

Until tomorrow, over and out.