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[thescubatank at cox.net]

Dave,
I just moved to the chesapeake, VA area from Jacksonville, FL. I did my sailing on the St Johns south of downtown. The area is great, the river is good to sail on. From downtown the intercoastal is 6 miles away. You are not far from St Augustine, which is a really nice area also.  The area around Jacksonville is normally untouched by the hurricane seasons. We did get some high winds last year, bu no really direct hits.  In the five years we were there we lost power from hurricanes three times.  Only once for a week. I never had a chance to do the intercoastal. Tome got short after I got Ad Astra and we moved up here. We did sail on a regular basis from the the Orange Park area to downtown Jacksonville. You can tie up downtown for up to 72 hours at a time.  We would go down for dinner and have a moonlight sail home.

Steve & Annette
S/V Ad Astra
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> From: DCLewis1 at aol.com
> Date: 2006/02/09 Thu PM 12:35:27 EST
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> Folks,
>  
> My wife and I are about to start a trek down the east coast looking for a  
> place to retire. This is the second of several treks.  Stops on this  time out 
> include: Southport NC, Georgetown SC/Pawleys Island, Charleston,  Jacksonville, 
> Palm Coast FL, St Augustine FL,  Venice FL, and Punta Gorda  FL.   Have any 
> of you sailed these areas?  Comments regarding  them?  
>  
> Particularly with regards to Jacksonville, it?s a big city and we don?t  
> know where to start: East toward the beach?  North towards Amelia Island  etc? 
> South on the St Johns river?  In your experience, where?s the focus  for sailing 
> boats like the R22?
>  
> Any input is appreciated.
>  
> Dave
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