{"id":423,"date":"2015-12-18T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2015-12-18T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:17:03","slug":"uscg-sector-jacksonville-is-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"USCG Sector Jacksonville is busy&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday &#8211; 12 December<\/p>\n<p>St. Augustine to Palm coast<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we\u00a0had heard multiple\u00a0boats on the radio report grounding between green markers 81 and 83. \u00a0Friends on a catamaran (shallow draft) had transited the area the day before and emailed us that they had seen a trimaran (shallow draft) caught up with one of the markers. \u00a0So we wanted to be prepared and did our research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ft.-Mantanzas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-432 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ft.-Mantanzas-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ft. Mantanzas\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ft.-Mantanzas-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ft.-Mantanzas-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Channel markers are in numerical sequential order and when new markers are added a letter is included. \u00a0Between G81 and G83 there are 4 additional markers: \u00a0G81A, G81B, G81C and G81D in quick secession really highlighting the channel. \u00a0All comments said to respect these markers which we did and had no trouble &#8211; yay. \u00a0<i>(The next day we would hear a Coast Guard broadcast about an unmanned sailboat at this location &#8212; we never did find out what happened there.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day today we heard a lot of different Securite and PanPan messages broadcast by\u00a0the United States Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capsized sail boat in the ocean<\/li>\n<li>Reports of a flare being seen<\/li>\n<li>Shipping containers may be floating and causing hazard to navigation<\/li>\n<li>Orange live preserver spotted floating in the water<\/li>\n<li>Dinghy on a jetty<\/li>\n<li>and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few days ago a barge headed to Puerto Rico from Jacksonville, FL\u00a0reportedly lost 25 shipping containers off the coast of Florida\u00a0.\u00a0 We have heard many horror stories of boats hitting errant shipping containers in the open ocean with catastrophic consequences.\u00a0 Some believe these stories are folklore and any containers that do fall into the ocean would sink quickly. \u00a0 Others say no, they can and do float sometimes. \u00a0There were reports of pallets of coffee and other foodstuffs washing up on beaches near Cape Canaveral. \u00a0Today the Coast Guard put out a Securite message reporting hazards to navigation&#8230;. sightings of\u00a0shipping containers near Jacksonville. \u00a0We never did hear if any were ever really spotted, but were glad we were not out in the ocean to find out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/From-the-stern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-431 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/From-the-stern-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"From the stern\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/From-the-stern-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/From-the-stern-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Otherwise, it was a lovely quiet day on the inland ICW.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday &#8211; 12 December St. Augustine to Palm coast Yesterday we\u00a0had heard multiple\u00a0boats on the radio report grounding between green markers 81 and 83. \u00a0Friends on a catamaran (shallow draft) had transited the area the day before and emailed us that they had seen a trimaran (shallow draft) caught up with one of the markers. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USCG Sector Jacksonville is busy&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}