Miles Traveled 51.6
Total Miles Traveled 3290
Day 228
We weighed anchor before sunrise this morning, a picture
perfect morning on the Great Loop!
Looking out into the Atlantic Ocean at St Catherines
sound.
The reason for our early start was to get through a shallow
pass known as Hell Gate at high or mid tide.
The tide in this area rises and falls 7 feet every 6 hours and some reports
show areas of 3 foot depths within the pass at low tide, “Moni Jean” has a
draft of 3’ 8”. Hell Gate is a man-made
canal behind Raccoon Key and between the Vernon and Ogeechee Rivers; the
Atlantic Ocean is on the other side of Raccoon Key. With a falling tide, extremely strong side-sweeping
currents from the river can push a vessel off course.
Raccoon Key
We pushed our Cummins diesel a little harder today, high
tide was 11:31 and we exited Hell Gate at 12:06 without any issues.
We saw several dolphins today, and one jumped completely
out of the water in front of the boat.
We also saw two giant sea turtles but couldn’t get the camera in time.
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