Our day did have one interesting event. One of the commercial shrimp boats, a 65 footer named SEA FOX was trawling just outside the Doboy Inlet between Savannah and Brunswick in Georgia and gave the Coast Guard a 'MAYDAY' while we were only a few miles away. The captain said they were taking on water and in danger of sinking and needed some pumps - ASAP. Coast Guard from Charleston and the Sea FOX captain went back and forth for a half hour before the Coast Guard finally responded with a helicopter and sent a small rescue boat from the south to the scene.
We hope.
Final report we had was the captain telling the Coast Guard that the water was above the engines in the hold and that they were still trying to get their trawl gear back in the boat. He was also talking to another commercial shrimper nearby that was trying to help. We lost contact after two hours and are still wondering what happened to the boat and the three man crew.
We arrived in Brunswick about 4 pm after a long day on the water. We had almost no wind or rain. Just overcast and threatening to rain all day.
Large yacht on left is SASSY, a 100 foot Hargrave, from Mt Pleasant, Michigan.
We are staying at the Brunswick Harbor Marina which is well protected from the wind on all sides. We are making good progress and are now at the Intercoastal Waterway mile marker 690, only 27 miles from the Georgia/Florida border.
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