For a couple of long time sailors from Kansas, tides and current continue to be a new and .....exciting challenge for us. Anchoring in the various creeks off the ICW, we had to take into account the current and tide when anchoring, as well as all the other normal things like depth, wind direction, bottom, etc... When we anchored in Big Tom Creek, we decided to anchor into the wind, thinking it would win over flood tide. *Actually, we misread the waves because of wind direction as the tide/current. But NO. Tide/current won out so we had a nice little ride around the other direction until we finally settled in. It was soooo weird to watch the current flood in and yet the little waves from the wind push the other way. "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
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