Heading North....

PascalG

PascalG

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just about to get underway from Miami, heading north to Nantucket with Charmer. As usual, we're taking it slow, inside.

webcam is on, GPS will be sending out positions every couple of minutes to a Google Earth file.

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DONT REFRESH this page for the latest image go to www.sandbarhopper.com to get it the self refresh...
 
Have a good trip. Hope that you remembered to bring warmer clothes along this trip. I'll enjoy watching your journey North
 
What day do you anticipate being between Daytona and St. Augustine? Thursday? Friday?

When you're coming through the Palm Coast area give the Jimbo Song a hail. We'll keep a listen for you.

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Have a super trip. I'll be behind you about a week or so. What is your strategy to deal with the channel closure in St. Augustine? Will you get there after 5/2? Or just stay at the city marina and go through before 7 am? If they do the second week of closures, I may go outside, weather permitting.

George
Hatteras 56MY
still in still-windy Marathon.
 
Weather forecast for the next several days is pretty good with seas consistently in the 2-3 ft range. A lot of guys I know are going outside at Ponce Inlet, Daytona and coming back into the ICW at St. Augustine Inlet. Or, as he said, spend the night at City Marina and go through before closure time.

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Have a super trip. I'll be behind you about a week or so. What is your strategy to deal with the channel closure in St. Augustine? Will you get there after 5/2? Or just stay at the city marina and go through before 7 am? If they do the second week of closures, I may go outside, weather permitting.

George
Hatteras 56MY
still in still-windy Marathon.

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I was tracking you this morning and it looked like you were having some issues....I see all is fine now.
 
Years ago, I always looked forward to making this trip, either north or south. At this time of the year, you can depend more on the weather being warmer than cooler, though you never really know.

Good luck and have a great and uneventful trip.
 
Pascal, you should have done this while I was laid up after my back surgery.
I had nothing to watch but COPS. I hate daytime TV.

Good luck.
 
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Originally posted by caltexfla

Have a super trip. I'll be behind you about a week or so. What is your strategy to deal with the channel closure in St. Augustine? Will you get there after 5/2? Or just stay at the city marina and go through before 7 am? If they do the second week of closures, I may go outside, weather permitting.

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I spoke with 2 sources recently regarding the closures. Channel is still officially "closed" as published in the LNM's (7am - 9pm). However, they are currently opening upon request during the day. They have requested closure between May 4th-9th from the CG, but haven't received a reply yet.
 
Interesting. I figured they closed the channel because there would be equipment in the water. Anyone know exactly what is being done that caused them to issue the closure notice? I ma well aware of the project itself; I hear locals are lobbying to keep the temporary span operating indefinitely to ease traffic. Don't think that after all the money spent on the rebuild that the aesthetes are going for that..

George
 
They are continuing work on the new road deck. Not quite sure what (new) equipment will be in the water. I do know that they struggle at times to keep the barges in place with the current that flows thru. I've seen a number of close calls where boaters tried to make a run for a closing gap and nearly got squashed between them.
 
With all due respect to Nancy, that is one beautiful boat in front of them going through the bridge!
 
Bon voyage Pasqual! Et bonnes photos.
 
Hey all. I hope he doesn't mind me posting but I just met up with Pascal as they tied up to their mooring tonight. I have always been impressed with Pascal's gracefulness on the water and he did this so effortlessly I really just thought I had to post a video of the process here on BE for all to learn from. I've tried to do it as effortlessly in the past on my own but frankly could never pull it off. With practice though I hope to get as good as this. Great meeting you this afternoon Pascal!

Here is a link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRQldaKvUg
 
The key word to that mooring of the boat is "gracefulness". There is no doubt about the level of grace needed to pick-up a mooring from a big yacht.
 
I cannot get the google earth thing to show where he is.
 
I had the same issue with Google earth not displaying cities and locations but I am not complaning. Google earth seems more stable this way. I have not had to restart the application as I had to do in the past. Perhaps GE is more stable because I also took off the nautical software that shows the markers. At any rate I am having a great time once again!
 
Pascal - thanks for officially starting the Rites of Spring and thanks for including us! And Wood, just thanks - that was priceless!
 
hey Bill, thanks for the pictures!! you should have called on the VHF to say hi...

the boat in front was a large Hatt, not sure what size, around 65/68 with a wide beam... he threw a heck of a wake north of sunrise in semi restricted section, limited to 15" wake... he was doing 15kts, with his wake breaking over the park sea wall, then bouncing back in the channel.

we made it all the way to St Lucie today, about 100NM not bad considering all the bridges and NWZ south of Jupiter. Had a problem at Haulover, last time i go thru there until they dredge. mid tide, I was on the green side where there is more water and still touched the bottom. Didn't chance it, called Sea Tow. The guy pulled us thru and said the buoys are way off station, too far west. there is about a 20' wide channel against, litteraly against, the green can.. I suspect there is water on the wrong side of the green... ridiculous. he told me they pull 5 to 6 boats every day. once you touch, you're done since the wind and tide push you further onto the shoal, which is hard... not soft silt. we now have a slight vibration on both props even though i was going thru on one engine and never even had the port engine in gear... with the numbers of large boats which transit between Miami and FLL, you'd think that 200' would be dredged or at least have he buoys in the right location.

Sometimes the Google Earth Plugin doens't refresh properly, if that's the case just click on the KMZ file and open it directly with Google Earth
 
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