We Ran AGROUND on the way to St. Augustine ( always a student )

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It wouldn't be a cruise on the Great Loop without some excitement! Cruising up from Peanut Island in New Smyrna up to St. Augustine was our longest day yet, almost 60 miles! Fortunately, we had an amazing guest, poppa Schoenfeld visited for his first time cruising on a Trawler. We ended the day in the St. Augustine mooring field with a fantastic view of Castillo de San Marco!
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Cheers from the Loop,
Jennifer and Elliot
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🎥 Episode 216 | Filmed on March 20th, 2022
🇺🇸 America's Great Loop | New Smryna, Florida
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Hi! We are high school sweethearts from Atlanta, Georgia who decided to take a year off to travel around the world. Together we decided to create vlogs for our journey as a fun way to remember it. On September 15, 2019, we left Atlanta with 3 bags, 2 one-way tickets, and 1 goal of traveling for a whole year. Little did we know, 6 months later we would find ourselves in a nationwide lockdown in India. After spending 5 months in India, we came back to the United States and decided to purchase a 34’ Trawler, dive head first into boat life, and kick off America’s Great Loop.
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[@SchoandJo]

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[@hueandsteve1989]

Your dad is awesome! He’s so kind & lovely. You’re just like your dad.

[@SchoandJo]

Aww thanks Steve!

[@COPPER71]

Your dad is amazing for riding that fari know that grind.. I used to ride bikes for MS and cancer then i was hit and run over by a truck while training for a 150 mile cancer ride.. that destroyed my bike and ended my riding career. Really love that your pops came on part of your trip👍

[@timhmetal3499]

You're not an experienced boater until you have run aground. Character is best defined by how we deal with adversity. I know it's a shell shocker the first few times but that's the reality of living and not sitting on your couch. Happy boating....

[@SchoandJo]

For sure! It probably won’t the last time, but every time we learn something new! Cheers!

[@ronkeeling6885]

There are those who have run aground and then there those who have yet to run aground Welcome to the club. No damage all good keep up the good work.

[@SchoandJo]

Thanks Ron!

[@fredtaylor6079]

In 1952, my mom took sick and my grandparents brought me to St. Augustine. I had my picture taken with the Lions on the mainland side of the bridge & remember running around the fort with my cousin. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.

[@SchoandJo]

Oh so cool! As a kid, I remember that fort was HUGE, we rolled down it and had picnics 😁

[@pap91rt50]

Never a dull moment in a boat... Running around is always a shocker...but you survived. Really nice to have your father along. That's a blessing..

[@SchoandJo]

For sure! It was really nice having him onboard! Thanks Larry!

[@AdventuresofAplusK]

Sooo awesome to have Elliot’s dad on board! We can agree that being out on the water with y’all is memorable and tons of fun ❤️ Although that hard running aground didn’t sound fun, but Jenn you had us laughing with your reaction to it. Two S bombs in this one haha love it 😂

[@SchoandJo]

Haha... we're pretty much experts at running aground, i think this was the 4th time??? Not that we want to be experts though lol....

[@gilbertoperez8530]

Running a ground in Ponce Inlet is a right of passage 😀 no markers in sight. I’m glad you guys were able to pull off of it. Love your videos. 😀

[@SchoandJo]

Thanks Gilberto! Wish we didn't but are happy that it all worked out 😁

[@Godofthemoon1]

Dad looks like he’s enjoying himself that’s so awesome!

[@SchoandJo]

For sure! Thanks for watching 😁

[@bethdarrow5111]

You probably already know about Bobs432 tracks? We follow them closely and they are free. The path is confusing through Georgia so we really relied on them. Great video!!!!

[@SchoandJo]

Bob423 is fantastic! Probably should have been running them in hindsight 😁 thanks for watching!!

[@billjeffery2419]

if you haven't ran aground ,then you haven't been anywhere😂.Great that you got free of the shoal easily .great video.

[@SchoandJo]

Haha right on! Thanks for watching Bill!

[@lesterwicklein717]

awsome!

[@SchoandJo]

Thanks Lester!

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Looking at the Google satellite view, that’s a really tricky inlet.

[@tmac709]

Glad that Dad enjoyed the boat ride. He sure looked enthused about it. Maybe he'll get a boat and do the loop. :-)

[@SchoandJo]

Quite possibly! We're trying to convince him but let's see 😁

[@Tom.Gregory]

New Smyrna is my favorite Florida town….

[@SchoandJo]

Its definitely a cool town!

[@buckpowers4837]

Part of the learning experience. Hope all turns out OK. covering the east side of Fla. pretty quickly but you have a lot of ground (water) to cover. Enjoy

[@SchoandJo]

All is good! Just another blip on our learning journey 😁 thanks Buck!

[@VASailpwr]

Great episode. How about mounting another switch at the windlass so that the bow person can control it rather than relying on the captain? Seems like that would simplify things sometimes.

[@SchoandJo]

It could help! We have it dialed in though and we are happy with how we drop the hook together - probably wouldn't change much 😁

[@RandyWHorton]

Hope to see you folks switch to sailing ⛵️

[@SchoandJo]

Who knows, maybe one day in the future 😁

[@randyputnam1056]

Running aground is one of those lessons we all have to learn when boating. I’ve spent over 40 years sailing and boating on the same body of water and last year finally found the rock with my name on it. Bent rudder shaft, busted up prop. Limped back to dock but no leaks. Insurance can be a wonderful thing! Keep on keepin on. Stay safe and smiling along the way.

[@SchoandJo]

Oooh geeze... it's all part of life - we win some and we lose some! We were very lucky that this was sand not rocks or it would have been a very different video. Hopefully it was all fixed up! Cheers!

[@BobEstler]

Your dad is an impressive athlete.

[@SchoandJo]

He keeps me going for sure, I need to do some more running to not get too far behind haha

[@johnmarschalk1977]

Ponce inlet. Aunt Catfishes is a pretty good seafood restaurant. Bridge off southern end of island. A1A. If it's around one of the NASCAR races, might meet a legend there. Petty's eat there and we were there when Richard Petty came in. Also, commotion on water. FCW officer there, 35 year veteran, said he'd never seen it before, but it was Manatees mating. (Underwater so not really as creepy as it sounds that we were watching) Reminder: North end Cumberland Island, South and North ends Jekyll Island and South end St Simons, HORSEFLIES!!! You'll be there soon. Haven't boated farther north except closer to Savannah and didn't have a problem.

[@SchoandJo]

Oh neat thanks for the recommendations! We are actually cruising through Savannah as we speak 😁 the horseflies we’re a sideshow to the gnat fest! But we enjoyed it all nonetheless 🤙

[@alholliday1808]

Bob’s tracks on AquaMaps!!

[@SchoandJo]

Haha running that now… I like the ETA and sonar views in Navionics but Aquamaps and Bob423 are fantastic!

[@tallbill4211]

I don't comment often on the Videos that I watch, but I wanted to give you a few kudos. I like that your currret videos are contemporaneous. I also like the travelouge style. Too many Loop videos are are boat drama, docking drama, or the drama du jour. Thanks.

[@SchoandJo]

We really appreciate your comment! We just try to call it how it is, sometimes there’s drama, sometimes we’re chillin with a beer, and however we see it we try to show it! Cheers

[@TimoS80]

Great channel, so glad I found you guys. Greetings from Finland :)

[@SchoandJo]

Thanks for saying hi! Cheers! We would love to visit Finland one day 😁

[@ClassXIRoads]

A little bump and grind to get the heart rate up. We bumped one time when least expected it, It does bring all hands on deck pretty quick. Glad you got off with no damage . thanks for the Video.

[@SchoandJo]

Right! That’s a quick way to get up and get that adrenaline going 😁

[@ralphholiman7401]

I think I ran aground more times the first year I owned a boat than all the other years combined after that. But, I still seem to find the bottom about once a year or so!

[@archdavis6942]

Great running into you at the Publix on Skidaway! Really enjoy your videos. Stay safe!

[@SchoandJo]

Eyy right on Arch! Thanks for commenting and thanks for stopping us and saying hi 😁 best of luck finding your perfect loop boat for you and the Admiral 😁

[@keithoutdoors7337]

That Channel has a Can because they have to move it because of the shifting sands. I told my Captain/boat owner we were out of the channel. He told me he was find, the digital charts told him we were good and just like that we hit ground. lol You can not rely on digital charts there.

[@SchoandJo]

heh at this time the can must have been swept out to sea 😅

[@suzanneaydelotte801]

So glad you made it out safely and without damage when you ran aground. I bet it was nice to have your dad on board for this trip! Happy and safe trawling! 🛥

[@SchoandJo]

Thanks Suzanne! Its hard to see family when traveling so much, it really was a treat to spend the time with him and have some great memories!

[@suzanneaydelotte801]

@@SchoandJo I know that feeling…I try to soak up every moment I can when my adventurers are in town!

[@SchoandJo]

@@suzanneaydelotte801 Aww! I bet it's lovely having the crew at home for the holidays! Or as much as possible 😁

[@steveandereggen3182]

Hi guys, so sorry about the grounding, do you dive down to check for any hull damage? How did Ollie take the sudden hit? What would you have done differently to avoid the grounding, another words what was the lesson learned. Hope it was sandy bottom. Were you taking a short cut? Anyway, glad everyone is safe, experiences on a boat are never ending. Wish you all the very best, love your video's, we give our very best ALOHA 🤙🤙🤙

[@SchoandJo]

No worries, just part of life! Didn’t dive down, but would have if we noticed any water in the bilge. Or if it was rocky, but it was a sandy shoal. Actually not too sure about Ollie, we were all hands on deck haha but she didn’t bark or scramble around so I think she was just fine! We were going 3 kts so she wouldn’t have fallen anywhere… basically we followed the natural waterway which went into the inlet. It wasn’t a shortcut but wasn’t longer either. In the future we’ll just double check the route - honestly we do that most days already but today there was a lot going on with guests, a long day so trying to get on the road quickly, and poor weather… but as they say, it never goes down when it’s 70 and sunny 😁😁 cheers and thanks for watching Steve! Aloha

[@alanmarfin1007]

Thank you for your videos. I have been planning to the the loop myself and hoping 2023 is the start year. Selling my 280 Sundancer, house and hope to base home around Southport NC.

[@SchoandJo]

Sweet! Sounds like a great plan - next year will be awesome! Southport is an awesome home base, we met a looper from there while staying in Myrtle last Winter! Cheers and best of luck!

[@TLee-kt5ff]

You need Bob's tracks!

[@SchoandJo]

Bob's tracks are great! We use them on and off and clearly we were not using them at this part of this cruise haha. Cheers!

[@TLee-kt5ff]

@@SchoandJo I can see how one could get turned around at the intersection of Ponce Inlet very easily. I don't use navionics anymore, the cost per year is too high. have fun and Keep it in the ditch!

[@frankrice5364]

Many a time in the gulf of Mexico

[@notme2773]

St Augustine is great they have the Spanish Fort they have a trolley that takes you all through the city shows you the old sites and they have the world's most haunted hotel a scary place to stay you want to try it it is one of the oldest cities in the country it's beautiful and the people are very nice

[@SchoandJo]

We love St. Augustine! We once did a bar hopping ghosts tour and that was very memorable haha!

[@br5498]

Please use Aqua Map’s….. The map program you’re using is only a suggestion and as we all know we travel the ICW if you follow the magenta line 30% of the time you’ll be in the grass

[@SchoandJo]

Yep… can’t follow the magenta line! Navionics is pretty good, this is the only time in 2k+ miles it’s led us astray 😁 but if course it happens in a shoaly inlet where the markers are everywhere else but missing right here… we use Aquamaps too - it’s great!

[@Lascivus]

When is the Scho and dad bike race? :P I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work

[@SchoandJo]

Haha I think I would lose in a heartbeat! Thanks for watching!!

[@bradirby2355]

I was wondering…with two starts on the loop, where are you going to call the point where you cross your wake?

[@SchoandJo]

We are thinking of Key West being our wake crossing but who knows! Atleast both places (KW and Fernandina) are in Florida so not too different all in all 😁

[@bradirby2355]

Methinks you’re just looking for an excuse to go back to Key West 😉

[@Prototheria]

Does your boat have a rudder angle indicator?

[@SchoandJo]

No… I actually just found out that this type of indicator exists at all from our neighbors in Vero Beach… I can see how helpful it would be! Haven’t done any research for cost / installation difficulty though

[@paulstclair4348]

Dang it, hope everything is ok !

[@SchoandJo]

Everything is good! Just a little excitement 😁

[@boosuedon]

Just curious, wasn't mentioned, did you check the foreword bilge immediately after 'hard' grounding to sound the forward compartment?

[@SchoandJo]

We did! We just cut it out of our long talking section of the video 😁 Fortunately it was a sand bar (and we were going snail speed) so no damage!

[@boosuedon]

@@SchoandJo WHEW! I was a little concerned. I had the misfortune a long time ago to hit a rock at 'snail speed' and it punched a small hole in the hull in my bow which I discovered when I checked the foreword bilge. It was nothing that the bilge pump couldn't handle but it did mean some repairs were in order.

[@haroldconnell2973]

We have all ran aground, the only safe bet is not leave the dock

[@SchoandJo]

And where is the fun in that 😁

[@frankrice5364]

Part of boat life.the bottom of channel change everyday .a foward sonar in the future can prevent this

[@SchoandJo]

Would be nice! We’ve learned that you can tell a lot from the graph of the down sonar, if that graph is slowly inclining then you should probably go slower just in case!

[@TheSirUno]

Those tracks that Navionics plots for you are the worst. Keep relying on those, and you should expect to run aground quite a bit more often as you progress. Learn to research your route and plot your own tracks utilizing more sources. Sorry if that sounds curt, but nearly 30 years as a professional navigator has taught me some hard lessons. Chiefly, Navionics is pretty terrible (in my opinion.) It’s a shame that far too many people rely on it as their sole source of information. I wish you well on your journey. Keep on learning. 👍🏼

[@SchoandJo]

Sounds like you have a lot of experience navigating! This is probably the first time in ~2500 miles that Navionics has led us to waters that didn't have markers... Normally we carefully check the route but a combination of rain, low tide, and a little less preparation than normal! Normally we cross-reference navionics with aquamaps USACE surveys for tricky sections of the ICW... seems like there's always enough information out there as long as you take the time to read it and stay aware! 😁

[@TheSirUno]

@@SchoandJo Oh, don’t mind me - I’m grumpy this morning. I’m glad that you and the boat are safe from the little grounding. I know that can be a bit stressful. At any rate, keep checking, double-checking, and rechecking those sources and you continue your journey. USCG Local Notice to Mariners won’t hurt either, btw. 😉 Fair winds…and hopefully less “free prop polishing.” 🤪

[@SchoandJo]

@@TheSirUno haha no worries! We appreciate all the comments and advice. Great tip on the Notice to Mariners too!

[@captainjackkay3132]

Guys I retired after 36 years as a Yacht Captain. Never assume never stop learning. Believe you are going to find the bottom . It's Yachting.

[@SchoandJo]

Wow - thats a ton of experience! Right on - gotta keep learning! Cheers

[@mvinfinity5002]

You put Dad to work washing windows…… Nice 😉

[@SchoandJo]

Haha!

[@fredbrillo1849]

There 3 kinds of boaters, those who have run aground, those who will run aground, and those that have but won't admit it.

[@SchoandJo]

😂 Very true!

[@jride632]

There are two types of boaters, those who have run aground and those who will.

[@SchoandJo]

💯

[@billmead5052]

Ugh. I've heard of other loopers following the auto route that way and bumping too. But now you know not to trust auto routing blindly. Check each step and verify it's not routing you through an unmarked "local knowledge" channel before you set out for the day. Just my advice.

[@SchoandJo]

That’s probably one of the most challenging parts of the loop as a whole. Every day is a new cruising ground with different tidbits of advice and local knowledge. Great tips - Cheers!

[@georgerobertson3833]

If you ain’t run aground you haven’t been around

[@SchoandJo]

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