Nice trip, Capt Frank. I dragged an Endeavour 35 sloop over the
sandbars a couple of years ago from Halifax River Yacht Club in
Daytona to Mayport.

We especially enjoyed seeing the ubiquitous Florida Crackers, sitting
on the docks in front of old cinder block houses with yards full of
old pickup trucks with their beers in their hands in faded lawn chairs
watching their kids jumping into the ICW and having great fun RIGHT
NEXT DOOR to the rich Yankee invaders in their amazingly priced custom
mansions with manicured lawns noone ever walked over, docks noone ever
enjoyed all shut up in their air conditioning. It's refreshing to see
the real Floridians can STILL live on their waterfronts and haven't
been pushed off their land in many places.....(c;

In spite of efforts to mark what's left of the channel at Daytona, I
managed to catch "something" that felt like a tree from the way it
"gave", in the middle of the channel trying to get the sloop from the
Halifax River Yacht Club's basin to the yacht harbor's basin to the
south of it. At Daytona, the ICW is a real mess with crazy turns and
twists around underwater obstructions right there. It was the only
time I ran her aground on that trip north, but we dragged her 5' 6"
keel over sand in a few places to Mayport....before she escaped to sea
on a rhumbline to Charleston out where she belongs....



On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:56:23 GMT, "Capt Frank Hopkins"
wrote:

Well, I have been threatening to do it so I did, Last night I moved the
"Vita" to a slip near the St. Johns and ICW intersection. Friday afternoon,
I start south. Destination Daytona. I will spend a night or two with the
spring breakers and head back up to St. Augustine.

--
Capt. Frank

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