Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Day 3: Cabin Bluff to Doboy Sound, 50 miles.
During the night one of the guards at Cabin Bluff turned on all the dock lights; we felt like a line-up. On the water at 8:15 in the AM.
Lots of wind during the day and we started in a light rain. Later it turned sunny and even though it was cold our spirits were better in the sunshine.
We called it a day early so that we would have a safe anchorage in the 20-30 mile winds due that night. Anchored at the juntion of Doboy Sound and North River in 25 feet of water about 200 feet off the shore. We asked a couple river-rats, who were fishing, if we could anchor in this spot which turned out to be stupid question because what would they care? The tide was really ripping when we anchored so I had to wait a couple hours before rowing Scooter to shore for his poop run. It was worth the wait because of the wonderful sunset you could see on the high dock we were anchored near.
Boat did well in high winds and ripping tide. Thirty feet on chain really nails the anchor to the bottom. Ran generator most of the night and boat got up to a balmy 60F.
