Florida at last.
We made it about an hour down the river when the starboard engine overheated. Quite a quandary to decide whether to return to the yard and be trapped for another month or just use one engine and try to sail most of the way. We decided to just go for it, as this is part of the reason we have 2 engines, along with 2 hulls and 2 rudders. Things went well for the next 4 or 5 hours sailing along in light air at aobut 6-8 knots. As the wind started to drop off and shift about, we started the engine and sure enough the steering started to go south again. Less than 6 hours this tiime, the worst example of fixed so far. We manually re-aligned the rudders and continued south. We discussed going into Brunswick, GA., but it would be dark before we could get there and we were about 30 miles offshore, so it would be late night entering an unfamiliar harbor. We would just have to align them by hand as needed through the night and contiue to St. Augustine. The wind shifted to the north later that nigh...
