On Jun 20, 6:26*am, Skip Gundlach wrote:
March 14 - On the road again...

As night approached, we thought to come back to the shoreline
area north of the channel, and anchor off Cumberland Island. *I
don't know what the bottom is there,


Did you looka at a chart. Somtimes charts have that info
How abouta crusing guide?
Or god forbid the Coast Pilot!

I made the decision
to, instead, heave to for the night.
Given the realities, I made the decision to get well clear of any
potential involvement with hard points. *

*Very
comfortably, we sat there, nearly motionless (other than our
slide to leeward), comfortable and dry, and slept soundly with
the anchor and cockpit lights ablaze.
When we arose to a brilliant day, later, we saw that we'd drifted
nearly 20 miles while hove to. *
Skip


My dear friend Skip................

While bobbing around hove-to did you have a someone responsible for
lookout duties who was actually awake at all times an looking out for
big hard objects?

Im not a very good reader and may have missed that point in you
description.

Bob