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Sunset @ Jekyll Island Harbor Marina where The Office is based. Chart location   http://cruisersnet.net/cruisersnet-marine-map/?ll=31.53251493906769,-81.20084224700928&z=15 We left our slip at Jekyll Island Marina  http://www.jekyllharbor.com/  on Sunday morning with the tide at mid way to high. We decided to try 1400 rpms on the twin Volvo diesels to see what our fuel consumption will be. We had cruised the boat down from Savannah when we bought it on fuel that was reported to be over 5 years old. Capt. Frank Barron, of  http://www.bluewatermarinesurveys.com/   advised us to add Cetane booster and we had no problems. A change of Racor filters reveled no bad deposits so we wanted to burn up the old fuel before adding more. Some one hit the bridge guard? Passing ICW Marker Green 19 about 100 ft off the marker we saw 8-9 ft of water. Jekyll Wharf  near Green 19 has boats on the mud at low tide. The ma...

We fired up the The Office and proceeded to motor to Cumberland. The weather promised to be nice for the next few days. We were fortunate to enjoy a nice ride down at 1400 rpm @ 7.5 kts to Cumberland Island. Our anchorage is 9.5 miles down the ICW from Jekyll Harbor Marina (  http://www.jekyllharbor.com/  ) on Jekyll Island where we have a home slip. Location chart view   http://cruisersnet.net/cruisersnet-marine-map/?ll=31.0463,-81.4225&z=14&highlight=1 We turned off the ICW at Brickhill River and went past the primitive campsite avoiding the sand bar we anchored in 11 ft of water at mid high tide. There was one sailboat a mile away. A few fishermen visited while we were there, otherwise we were  alone. Click here for a chart view of the anchorage  http://cruisersnet.net/cruisersnet-marine-map/?ll=30.8865166667,-81.4621&z=14&highlight=1 We towed the dinghy, our 11 ft Boston Whaler, she rode easy in our wake with no problems. ...