I have reserved a camp site at St.Andrews State Park for the weekend. Friday the 13th to Sunday the 15th of August. Plenty of other sites are available. My site is on the water with room for a couple other boats. If anyone else is interested let me know.


On the beach at St. Andrews State Park


Shell Island.



At the camp site.




edited by: skarr1, Aug 07, 2010 - 08:36 PM

I will be there.
Hopefully the sea breeze kick's in.

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Tyler,
Are you going to be on that slow yellow N20 that all most sank at RTI?

Haha, yep.
That was my fault we almost sunk.
I forgot to put the plugs in.




edited by: TylerH, Aug 09, 2010 - 07:27 PM

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Hopefully the water will be clear.
http://www.flickr.com/pho…19415531@N08/4877649512/
http://www.flickr.com/pho…19415531@N08/4877030149/



edited by: skarr1, Aug 09, 2010 - 08:28 PM

Yeah, we sailed there last weekend, wind was from the south at about 13-15 knots..
it picked up to about 20 because of a storm...
did you know they blocked off the pass?



edited by: TylerH, Aug 09, 2010 - 08:29 PM

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So we can't get to the Gulf?

We can, but the wind has to be right.
the only problem is, it's VERY narrow to get out.
so if you have to head up...you are pretty much screwed..
it's all good though...we flew a hull right outta there.
the chop was about 6-8 feet..but we handled it.
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edited by: TylerH, Aug 09, 2010 - 08:43 PM

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You are taking you LIFE in your hand when you sail with this crazy man!!

Haha, that's funny..
btw, is this a regatta or just a sail?
i wont be able to make it friday..(school)

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I will not be there till late Friday night..(work)
Sailing, swimming, snorkeling, and camping.



edited by: skarr1, Aug 09, 2010 - 08:51 PM

Haha, option 2 then..
Mabey i could talk him into sailing,
after i get out of school on friday.



edited by: TylerH, Aug 09, 2010 - 08:51 PM

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Do to a situation beyond my control, we will be able to arrive at PC early Friday afternoon.

The wind and clouds will be great, just have to watch out for lightning!!

Friday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 82. West southwest wind around 15 mph.

Saturday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 90. West southwest wind around 15 mph.

Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 80.

Gotta love them random tropical storms/depressions over the gulf.

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skarr1

Do to a situation beyond my control, we will be able to arrive at PC early Friday afternoon.

The wind and clouds will be great, just have to watch out for lightning!!

Friday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 82. West southwest wind around 15 mph.

Saturday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 90. West southwest wind around 15 mph.

Saturday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 80.

with an 80% probability of being completely wrong

andrewscott

with an 80% probability of being completely wrong

True that.
The weather channel is 20% correct.

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-Saturday
Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning...then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Southwest winds around 30 mph. Chance of rain 35% percent. Highest heat index readings 105 to 110 in the afternoon.
-Sunday
Mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs around 90. Southwest winds around 15 mph.




edited by: TylerH, Aug 12, 2010 - 06:54 PM

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Skarr,

I will be in PC beach on the 23 for 3 days and I am thinking about extending our stay and bringing the boat with me. If I do we will be in the holiday inn sunspree for 2 nights the St. Andrews for another two nights. Which is the best camp site at St. Andrews? 143? 14? I see you have stayed at both. I will take your word on it and hope its available for the 25th thru 27. I will be in a small motor home just like this one here
http://www.roadtrek.com/models.aspx?ModelID=17&YearID=11&Country=USA

Its small enough to fit pretty much any site that will take a pop up. Thanks for the help.

Ok after viewing the sites available, 14 and 143 are only tent sites. Is 149 a waterfront hobie friendly site. I would like to just leave it set up on the beach if possible.



edited by: av8erdunn, Aug 12, 2010 - 07:45 PM

15 is the best then 14. I think 143 is listed as tent only.
There are a lot of sites on the water, but most have trees or rip rap along the shore. The ones I have listed had a big enough beach to park a cat on. It has been over a year, so conditions might have changed. There is a ramp at the park but it is surrounded by piers. I will up date my list this weekend. I have about 15 more sites that can be used.

You can check availability here http://www.floridastatepa…rg/standrews/default.cfm



edited by: skarr1, Aug 12, 2010 - 08:23 PM

When will you be there steve?
friday night?

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Well that figures, they are both taken. I just dont want to pull the boat and drive the motorhome if we are not going to be able to get a site that does not have rip rap or beach access.

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Do to a situation beyond my control, we will be able to arrive at PC early Friday afternoon.

Looking forward to The Captains Table, and some night sailing.



edited by: skarr1, Aug 12, 2010 - 08:47 PM

Oh, alright...
So you guys are sailing friday?
and i need directions to the site...


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Tyler holmes
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Jeremy,

Here are the other numbers 2,4,6,8,12,30,36,38,96,106, and 134.



edited by: skarr1, Aug 12, 2010 - 09:18 PM

Haha, i have NO idea where the camp grounds are, what number are you guys?

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Here is the main gate.http://maps.google.com/ma…a&utm_term=google%20maps




edited by: skarr1, Aug 12, 2010 - 09:42 PM

Thanks

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Tyler holmes
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What do you mean Thanks, that did not work. Google this,
4607 State Highway 39, Panama City, FL

Thanks for directions.

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Im thinking bout bringing my windsurfing stuff tomorrow...



edited by: TylerH, Aug 12, 2010 - 10:25 PM

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Jeremy,
I sent you a PM

Got it, thanks.

Jeremy,
Here is camp site 38




And this is the beach at the camp site.



You should be able to back the boat under that branch and then raise the mast. There is about 30 feet from the branch to the water.



edited by: skarr1, Aug 15, 2010 - 10:39 PM

skarr1

You should be able to back the boat under that branch and then raise the mast.

Electric chainsaws don't make near as much noise as the gas kind. Just sayin...

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Thanks for the pictures. I dont think it will be a problem although I do like the idea of getting that branch out of the way... I think they would be rather mad to find out it was cut. I was hoping that I would be able to put the mast up on the trailer so I could use the winch due to a bad back but we will see. Maybe there is a campsites close to mine I could take it through to get to the water then walk it down to 38. Thanks again for the pics, this is an awesome forum.



edited by: av8erdunn, Aug 17, 2010 - 07:34 AM

Jeremy,
You might also want to be careful of root's.
we had about 7 or 8 GIANT ones...

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TylerH

Jeremy,
You might also want to be careful of root's.
we had about 7 or 8 GIANT ones...

I hope this isnt a dumb question but what will the roots hurt?

Did yall have a good time? Weather good?



edited by: av8erdunn, Aug 16, 2010 - 05:34 PM

Well, the grounds uneven and the hulls sit funny on it.
could scratch the hulls, but other then that,
you should be fine...

Yeah, we had an AWESOME time!
We covered about 40 miles, in about 3 hours.
We had South west winds, about 20-25 knots.

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Wow I hope the winds are not that high next week. I have only taken this thing out 2 times and only one of them is with my wife and daughter. The other time was the Terry (golfdad73). I would not feel comfortable going out in winds that high only being on a sailboat 2x in my whole life.

The winds were only that high because of that tropical storm.

I can tell you from experience in that bay, the winds are usually 5-12 knots.

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You should be able to back the boat under that branch and then raise the mast.

I meant back the boat on the trailer hooked to your van under the branch. The branch is at least 8 feet high.

Ah that will be great. I just hope it isnt storming the whole time. Is that bay a difficult bay to sail in? I would like to go over to sand island also. Is it sand island or shell island?



edited by: av8erdunn, Aug 16, 2010 - 06:00 PM

In the little channel its pretty shallow, but once your out into the bay you should be fine..

it's shell island but its not really a island anymore...

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Tyler holmes
Panama city, FL

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Shell Island

The bay at the camp site has some shallow places especially at low tide.


You might move the picnic table and get the mast past the tree

Steve, you should upload that video of us doing the spin run.

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Tyler holmes
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Oh yeah I dont think that will be a problem getting through. I cant thank you enough for getting the pictures. Maybe next time yall go I can meet up with yall and get you a beer. . If you like beer that is. In the shallow places will you run aground without daggers?

av8erdunn

In the shallow places will you run aground without daggers?

Your rudders will pop up...
That's about it.

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Tyler holmes
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As Tyler said we had an awesome time. Here is a video of Tyler in action. He is the one setting down.
http://www.flickr.com/pho…19415531@N08/4895843623/

Steve, you will be at juanas right?

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The water is clear enough that you can see the bottom as it gets shallow. There is a small channel that runs North from about camp site 101 to the main channel. It is not marked but if you look on google earth you can see it.

That video is awesome.
Thanks for filming it steve!

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That yellow N20 is faster than my 5.8 but not by to much.

Haha, nice pic.

Those boards look horrible.



edited by: TylerH, Aug 16, 2010 - 06:41 PM

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Thats a good video and an awesome picture. What year is your N20?

The Story,

Josh and I arrived at St. Andrews at about 4pm Friday. After checking in we proceeded ti site 143 and set up camp. As we started putting the 5.8na together Tyler and his Captain arrived an also started assembling the N20.


In order to make more room I anchored my boat about 50 feet off shore.


When we finished rigging the 5.8 we sailed until dark.
After showering we went to The Captains Table for dinner.
http://maps.google.com/ma…resnum=1&ved=0CBMQnwIwAA

The sea food was delicious and the service great. I think we were the last to leave.

Saturday morning at breakfast at the Blue Top Waffle Shop http://maps.google.com/ma…=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wlwe heard that our President was coming to Panama City Beach.

Upon returning to the camp ground we noticed helicopters flying all around. The President was staying just across Grand Lagoon from us!!

As we sailed out of the Lagoon the Coast guard stopped us and after a long discussion I was told to stay on the South side of the channel. The President was on the North side. The N20 was also stopped and told the same thing.

On the South side of the channel waiting for the N20.


When we hit St. Andrews bay we turned North and did a Spin/Hooter down wind run across the bay. My GPS recorded 19 MPH for a top speed on this run.
After running out of bay we turned around and close reached to the south. This was a gusty flying the hull against the waves run. Big smiles all around. The N20 had kicked my butt on the down wind run. He was still faster upwind but he did not leave me as far behind. After reaching the entrance to Grand Lagoon we turned East and did another Spin/Hooter reach to the end of the bay. About 5 miles. Here is the video link againhttp://www.flickr.com/pho…19415531@N08/4895843623/


At the end of the bay we stopped, rested and played in the water. Fiddler crabs were every where.



We could not go exploring inland.


From here it was a close reach back to the camp and lunch.


On the way I saw 6 to 8 Dolphins off the leeward bow. The were crossing our bow, but the bearing to them did not change. Has any one else ever hit a dolphin going 15 MPH!!
He surfaced just off the leeward bow and dove under the boat. I guess he did not see the dagger board!! The boat almost stopped. As Josh and I were on the wire, we both went about 10 feet forward on the boat before regaining control. We never did see any of those dolphins again.

After being chased by the Coast Guard again we made it to camp and ate lunch.

I will post about after lunch in a little bit.








edited by: skarr1, Aug 16, 2010 - 08:18 PM

Sounds like it was a great time.

Jeremy,
The N20 is not mine. I wish it was. Maybe Tyler knows.

av8erdunn

What year is the N20?

I belive the N20 is a 2005 or a 2006.
It is an alter cup boat.




edited by: TylerH, Aug 16, 2010 - 07:48 PM

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Tyler holmes
Panama city, FL

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The rest of the story,


After lunch we ran the Coast Guard blockade and went to the beach in the pass.

Photo from a different trip.


We were going to pull up by the rocks, but there was a large church group holding a mass baptism. We decided to sail across the pass to Shell Island. On the way over I saw that it would only be two tacks to be in the Gulf and play in the large waves out there. A pilot boat came up to us and used his PA "some thing the Coast Guard could use" to inform us that a large freighter was coming in. We had one more tack to clear the channel. When we made that last tack the freighter captain, still about 1/2 mile away showed his displeasure by giving us on loud long blast of his whistle!! We cleared the channel and missed the freighter by a mile.

After rocking and rolling in the Gulf for about 15 minutes we headed in to Shell Island. We had the beach to our selves. Just before dark we ran the blockade back to camp.

Sunday look like rain and the wind was supposed to slow down. So not being able to top Saturday we packed up and left.



edited by: skarr1, Aug 17, 2010 - 05:57 AM

We definitely need to do this again.



edited by: TylerH, Aug 16, 2010 - 08:57 PM

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Tyler holmes
Panama city, FL

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Let me know the next time yall go and I may be able to come down. Both of yall will run circles around my getaway but it will still be fun.

The N20 sailed one circle around me. The rest of the time they just slowed down and waited. We would be glad to have you sail with us.

Yep..nothing like NOT capsizing in about 20 knots.

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Panama city, FL

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