Brunswick, GA to Crescent River (near Valona), GA (anchored)
June 22, 2022
We made a decision to travel on the ICW instead of going out in the ocean. We don’t have a great way to secure our new air conditioner against rough seas at the moment. It will be a longer trip but we have budgeted enough time to get to Charleston.
The ICW in Georgia is really twisty and curvy as it follows some natural tidal rivers. There are a lot of inlets and sounds and on navigation charts it appears it’s mostly marshy. Navigation would be incredibly difficult without technology.
Lailia’s autopilot will hold a course while we are underway; without it we have to adjust to wind and current almost continuously. Today it stopped working. John thinks a wire in the NMEA 2000 cable broke because the unit is not getting power. Of course, these wires run through all sorts of small, narrow places on our boat so fixing it will take some boat yoga (although John tried to deal with it as I steered for a bit).
Our anchorage is at the mouth of the Crescent River. It’s pretty remote here but there are dolphins galore. We have seen some interesting behavior including barrel rolls.
We’ll leave around 6:00 tomorrow morning because we need to go through the shallow channel at Hell Gate on a rising tide. The channel is about 40 miles from us and we need to be there around 1:30. We are really, really happy that we have an air conditioner and that it runs with our generator!
Sunset at Cresecent River anchorage
Life on Lailia 