Jacksonville To Get Stuff Done

We left our Jekyll Island anchorage Monday morning 25 Nov 2019. From there we crossed St. Andrews Sound. St. Andrews Sound can be a 'white-knuckler' especially if wind is blowing against the current -- the route goes right passed the Atlantic Ocean breakers. From there past Cumberland Island, Kings Bay Sub Base, Fernandina Beach to Jacksonville. We were originally going to stay at the free dock at Jim King Park off Sisters Creek but decided to continue south to spend two nights at Palm Cove Marina. We had been traveling hard for a week, anchoring out every night and were ready for a break.

The reason for running so hard was two-fold. When we became Florida residents in July, we needed new estate planning documents. We found an attorney right off the ICW. The ONLY appointment she had available was 26 Nov! Or 10 or 11 Dec. -- we would have been long past Jacksonville and would have had to rent a car and drive up. We discovered this when we were in Georgetown, SC - 339 miles from Jacksonville and had 10 days to get there. The most dangerous thing in boating is having a schedule and we have been determined NOT to have a schedule so figured we would do the best we could. If we didn't make it by the 26th, we'd rent a car. 

The weather gods were in our favor and we actually made it with two days to spare! I said earlier our running hard was two-fold. The second reason was we had such a great weather window and we were tired of being cold!

Here's where it gets really good! We have friends that live in St. Augustine. Turns out they work about 10 miles from the marina we were staying in. They were able to meet us for dinner AND left us with one of their cars to use all day Tuesday! It just doesn't get any better! Thank you Bob and Christine! We spent the following day at Walmart, Trader Joe's (Sharon loves TJ's) and Winn Dixie, went to lunch at Tacolu's and went to our appointment to sign our estate planning docs. Afterwards, we picked Bob up at work and had to return to the attorney to pick up our hard copy and soft copy documents (they needed to be scanned). The three of us went to dinner and we said good-bye to Bob. Sharon and I spent the remainder of the evening doing three loads of laundry and visiting with locals that were live aboards at the marina. Why so late with the laundry? We went to the laundry room bright and early and were told they were replacing them with new washers and dryers. Soooo... we decided to wait especially since the dryers didn't 'dry'.

Dinner at Ragtimes withBob and Christine. Bob and I have
been friends since we met in bootcamp in 1982.

Our route from Jekyll Island to Palm Cove Marina