We were up bright and early to continue our journey. Once again, the wind was not in our favor during the morning hours however it picked up in the afternoon. When we originally set out that morning, we were hoping to make it to St. Augustine. We soon realized that was not going to be possible without an overnight sail.
I quickly found a spot off the New Smyrna inlet, so we set our barring’s for it. Navionics showed a couple of anchorages should we need options. As were arrived at the inlet a catamaran coming out hailed us and asked us if we had been there before. His advice was to stay close to the jetty due to the depth of the inlet.
There was a lot of confusion as to where the anchorage was exactly as no other boats were in the spot that was marked on the map. It was directly across from the Coast Guard station, so we set our anchor and asked the Coast Guard if we were ok, and they said we were fine. It was a little shady, ok a lot shady, but all that matters is we had plenty of water beneath us, the channel was not too busy, mostly pleasure crafts and neither the CG or Game and Fish was concerned.
We sat on the top deck and enjoyed sundowners as we watched the Lighthouse ahead of us.
