Tuesday Nov 8th, 2011 Vernon River, GA anchorage

  We weighed anchor at 8am and came onto the ICW right as a barge was coming towards us.  Luckily it was wide at that part of the river, but I would not want to meet them in any narrow section, like Fields Cut, our first narrow section of the day.  A large trawler overtook us in Fields Cut, and then stopped cold just as he got into the Savannah River.  We couldn’t see what was going on, and were about to overtake him when a large containership came around the corner!  We quickly backtracked.

  On to our first bridge of the day, Causton Bluff Bascule Bridge, which is on demand and seemed very accommodating.  And on past Thunderbolt Marina where Mirabella V was docked.  Her mast is so tall, I heard she was unable to get under the Golden Gate Bridge!, and she charters for $250,000/wk plus fuel and food!!

  The second and last bridge in Georgia was Skidaway Narrows Bascule Bridge, and we could see they were replacing it with a hi-rise.  Then on to this anchorage up the Vernon River by the little village of Beaulieu where the trees sheltered us from the strong north wind.