Adventures With Hook: Annisquam River, MA

Poor Maddie! Another sea-sick start to the day. This time she was seasoned and actually made it to the cockpit and puked off the side like a pro! When the Merrimac River's current meets the wind just right it gets pretty wild at its mouth. The river can run 6 Kts at mid-tide!
Once out far enough it again settled down. So far Emma and Papa have the iron guts of the family...so far...
We had been told that coming into the Annisquam River was quite a windy trip. They were sure right. Windy and shallow! We were coming in at dead low tide too. The shallowest section was 7 feet on the chart. We draw 4'9" and were told we'd be just fine. We were but we did touch bottom and dragged through the mud/sand for 5-8 seconds! You could feel it happening under your feet as you stood in the cockpit! Wow! We, of course, were going extremely slow.
There were 3 bridges to navigate too. One tall, one train drawbridge and one car drawbridge. It was the first bridges we had to call ahead and have them open for us! Very cool.