Wind still blowing hard when we leave
in the morning. Another day of wind and following seas as we pass
between the Georgia sea islands. The autopilot can not handle these
kinds of conditions so we have another day of hand steering.
Following seas and surfing on waves requires a lot of wheel movement
to stay on course. I'm going to sleep well tonight. We arrive at Fort
Frederica on the Frederica River on St Simons island, which is a
national monument. Prior to the ICW the Frederica River was the only
way north or south in this area without going out into the ocean. The
British built a fort and town here around 1736 to block the Spanish
in Florida from traveling north and making claims on present day
Georgia which was then a no-mans land between Florida and British
South Carolina.
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| Fort Frederica |
Click here for some interesting history
on Fort Frederica
This was not where we had planned on
spending our Thanksgiving. We had hoped to make it to St Marys in
Georgia for the town's Thanksgiving dinner for boaters heading south,
but weather and circumstances delayed our arrival.
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