Oh yeah, cruising involves a little bit of planning, like watching the weather, and now back in saltwater, watching the tides. The funny thing about cruising lakes and rivers is that you get comfortable with being in much deeper water typically. In Georgia, the reservoirs we cruised in could be 100+ feet deep. Now back in coastal waters and the US Corps of Engineers "waterway system" we are typically in waters less than 10 ft deep. Along the Georgia Atlantic coast where the twice daily tides are 6 - 10 ft a channel that's 6 ft deep can be dry at low tide!!!! Because of federal cutbacks over the last 10-20 years, most if not all of these waterways that do not get commercial traffic are not maintained or dredged anymore. In some places along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway there are parts of the system that are now impassable due to shoaling.
All of this is a long way around saying that now that we're back on the boat and "hot to trot" we're "cooling our jets" for the rest of the week until the weather gets better. Ummmm ummmmm, Mobile oysters!