Further to my St Augustine inlet message. Yesterday I visited aboard the barquentine Peacemaker that has a 14 foot draft. I was told they did enter St Augustine, at high tide, following a fishing boat who called out the depths to them. They did bump the bottom but continued on in successfully anyway.
Peacemaker is part of a "bible based" organization called The Twelve Tribes with settlements in various places, and is essentially a school ship for their teen-aged boys. The ship is amazing, built as a personal yacht by a Brazilian industrialist with Italian carpenters of tropical hardwoods and bought by the Twelve Tribes organization 1 1/2 years later in a somewhat unfinished condition. The new owners are finishing the job, an ongoing process (as we all know!). A big problem was the sprayed-in urethane foam that the original owner installed between the planking and the ceiling. After they found a rotten rib they determined that they would have to remove it all. Fortunately they have lots of free labor. The rig (aluminum spars) was partially built as a stay sail schooner and not yet installed but they decided to change it to a barquentine. The people on the boat we found to be very friendly and outgoing. They boys, who handled all the chores in the rigging (air draft 126 feet), were polite and exuded a quiet, competent attitude. The have big signs offering "free tours" to one and all and one of the ladies gave Jan and I a complete tour. One of the other ladies is a potter and offers some beautiful wares for sale. There are a few other things they sell, tea, photos of the ship, T-shirts, etc. Altogether it was an impressive ship and crew. www.peacemakermarine.com www.twelvetribes.org Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Gloucester MA > [Original Message] > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 9/7/2009 8:03:18 AM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] St. Augustine Local Knowledge, please > > > Perhaps they have dredged the channel lately and Ben has updated info. > > Several years ago I bumped the bottom approaching the entrance at the most > offshore pair of red/green buoys with my 8 feet of draft. We turned around > and went back to Mayport to enter. > > Later I went out with my dingy (with installed depth finder) and checked it > out. I did find 7 feet just outside the first pair but deeper water if I > went south of the first green marker about 150 feet then back into the > channel where it was OK all the way in. > > Perhaps entering at high tide would be safest. > > Norm > S/V Bandersnatch > Lying Gloucester MA > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Date: 9/6/2009 10:35:23 PM > > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] St. Augustine Local Knowledge, please > > > > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 09:59:56PM -0400, Flying Pig wrote: > > > We're going to be arriving in St. Augustine late next week (10th-ish). > > > > > > What's the controlling depth on the inlet? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
