I am writing this sitting in a hammock tent docked at Lone Cabbage. No spell check so hang in there with me.
Today Johnathan and I launched our Sea Pearls from Camp Holly off 192 in hopes of making a one way trip down the St Johns. How far will we get? Not sure. There are a few things that could get in our way. Wiers, shallow water, weather. Good or bad we are making a trip going.
The morning started off fairly nice. We launched right at 10 AM. It took a while to get to the weir just north of the first lake. Our initial attempts at dragging the boats across didn't work. Too heavy. We finally wised up and used our mast tube extensions as rollers and made quick work of getting both boats across. Yeah, one major obstacle behind us.
As we completed the portage the weather began getting a little darker. It wasn't a 1/2 hour later and the rain and lightening set in. Johnathan and I had some discussion on weather we were better off with the masts up or down. I elected to put mine down on the deck and his remained up. The rain and lightening go so bad that we stopped for about and hour. Johnathan was able to crawl into his cabing but I remained above deck and bailed as needed. The bad weather didn't really let up for the entire afternoon but as we made our way onto Lake Pointset we had our winds at our backs and sailed across with storms chasing us the whole way.
We arrived at Lone Cabbage at 7:45 PM. Had a little dinner and now its rest time. Enjoy the pics.
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