The fog lifted to about quarter mile visibility, which is a lot for someone from Maine, so I was off down the Saint Marys River shortly after my last post. I didn’t see much except vague hints of day beacons until I got to Fernandina. From what little I saw of the paper mills, the fog considerably improved the view.
It started to rain when the second mill was just abeam so I diverted out of the channel and anchored. Doppler radar on the computer showed an alert for a strong thunderstorm cell headed right for Saint Marys so I was glad I’d broken the sirens spell of the town and made some southing. I was still in the area where it and other forming cells could pass and it was noisy and un-scenic spot so I decided to head on in the rain and put more distance between myself and the projected storm path.
It was surprisingly pleasant running along in the rain. It was warmer than rain usually feels like even in Maine’s summers and the misty veil gave a whole new look to scenery that is a lot like the last five hundred miles. It was low tide so I ploughed a couple of furrows across the shoal spots that have developed in the middle of Nassau Sound but that hardly slowed the boat at all. Nice stuff, mud.
I spent the night anchored at the mouth of Fort George River. The visibility is better this morning:
However, it is still considerably less than the distance between waterway beacons and the outboards of the crab and fin fishermen are coming out of the murk a lot closer than I would like to meet anything in the narrow channels on a falling tide so I guess I’ll be here until it falls enough that a grounding won’t put me in an overly uncomfortable position. I see that there were tornadoes in Alabama and Mississippi last night. I’m not in a very good spot for strong winds so I’ll be keeping a close eye on the radar even though there isn’t much I can do about it.
It started to rain when the second mill was just abeam so I diverted out of the channel and anchored. Doppler radar on the computer showed an alert for a strong thunderstorm cell headed right for Saint Marys so I was glad I’d broken the sirens spell of the town and made some southing. I was still in the area where it and other forming cells could pass and it was noisy and un-scenic spot so I decided to head on in the rain and put more distance between myself and the projected storm path.
It was surprisingly pleasant running along in the rain. It was warmer than rain usually feels like even in Maine’s summers and the misty veil gave a whole new look to scenery that is a lot like the last five hundred miles. It was low tide so I ploughed a couple of furrows across the shoal spots that have developed in the middle of Nassau Sound but that hardly slowed the boat at all. Nice stuff, mud.
I spent the night anchored at the mouth of Fort George River. The visibility is better this morning:
However, it is still considerably less than the distance between waterway beacons and the outboards of the crab and fin fishermen are coming out of the murk a lot closer than I would like to meet anything in the narrow channels on a falling tide so I guess I’ll be here until it falls enough that a grounding won’t put me in an overly uncomfortable position. I see that there were tornadoes in Alabama and Mississippi last night. I’m not in a very good spot for strong winds so I’ll be keeping a close eye on the radar even though there isn’t much I can do about it.
