Scott here. Today we left our Farmdale anchorage, which we loved and went to Apalachicola and are safely tucked away in another anchorage. For some reason I was nervous about this travel day. Skinny waterways that had reports of being shallow in places. We worked hard at staying in the channel and never really saw anything less than 11′ of water, usually 13′.

Not surprising we had fog in the morning. I woke up at 5:30 and looked and said no way am I taking Jazzy for a walk yet. Thankfully, she wasn’t ready either, and I went back to sleep for another hour. It was still foggy, but it broke up enough I could see well enough. Good thing we marked where the beach was so I could use electronics to get there as I couldn’t see shore.

Start at: 8:30 am ACTUAL 8:05 AM
End at: 1:30 pm ACTUAL 2:15 PM
Total Time: 4:55 hours ACTUAL 5:01 HOURS
Distance: 44.3 miles ACTUAL 44.8 MILES
Avg. speed; 8.9 mph
Max speed: 12 mph

Total time was pretty close. We probably arrived at the anchorage 15-12 minutes earlier, but we go super slow into the anchorage, so we can back out if we hit bottom. Charts have the area mapped out between 5-8′, but we didn’t see anything less than 11′ at low tide. Tide is about 2′ here.

We anchored in about 10′ of water, the bow roller (what the anchor sits on when not being used) is about 3′ from the water. So that would be 13′ off the ground. If rough weather, we would let out 7x-10x or 91-130′ anchor rode. In easy weather we could do 5x or 65′ of anchor rode. We are somewhere between that, only because we are fairly close to land, even though I don’t think we will swing that way due to a 2-mph current that should keep us straight.

Anchor rode – what is that?? Well, on a boat a rope isn’t a rope. Once it touches a boat it is a line. Our anchor rode consists of a 65 lb. Mantus anchor, 25′ of 3/8″ chain, and 200′ of 3-strand line (rope.) All of that makes the “anchor rode.”

Plans have changed so stay tuned for the tomorrow mornings post!! Below are a few photos from today.