It’s been over two months since we left Boston, and I’ve
only really posted once. I will
really try to get better at keeping you all informed. It will also help us to remember what we’ve done when we
look back on our journey.
On Sunday, December 1, we left Titusville. We motored down the ICW since the wind
was coming from the south and that is, of course, the direction we are
heading. We anchored near Eau Gallie
Bridge in Melbourne the first night.
It was an uneventful day – but that is always a good thing. The next morning we got up and did the
same thing. We went into Vero
Beach City Marina and snagged a mooring for the night. Since we got in at a fairly early time,
we decided to put the dinghy down and try the outboard motor. The fuel line connector had a crack in
the o-ring, and the engine wasn’t getting enough fuel to start. We were going to row ashore early, get
the part we needed, and hopefully move on our way quickly. However, Michele’s Mac was dead. It wouldn’t boot up at all. It was still acting funky once in
a while, even though we had it looked at 10 days earlier at a place in Viera
(near Melbourne - when we had a car and could drive there). So, luckily we found a place in Vero
that was a Mac authorized dealer who was willing to look at it for us – but not
until 3:00 p.m. that day. They
were able to fix it for now – we’ll keep our fingers crossed. So, Vero ended up being a two-night
stay.
During the time that we dropped off the computer and picked
it up, Michele managed to drop and crack her phone, AGAIN. The first time, the damn phone gets run
over, the screen is cracked to smithereens, but still works fine (except for
getting glass in my fingers)! This
time, the screen is barely cracked, but the display no longer works at all. So frustrating. Since we really are going to be
suspending our phone service within the next week, we are not going to bother
to fix it until we return. (I’m
already having withdrawal.)
We left Vero Beach early Wednesday morning and again motored
south down the ICW. While cruising
past Fort Pierce, we took pictures for Steve cousin Karyl who has a townhouse
in the area. Still the winds were
on the nose, so no sailing. We
anchored at Jenson Beach Bridge and had an uneventful day/evening. (Again a good thing.)
After leaving the anchorage, we motored south down the ICW
on Thursday, hitting many bridges that we needed to request openings. After a while, we finally ended up in
West Palm Beach and anchored for the night. It’s weird being here without our friends the Murrays on
Tranquility (now back in New Zealand).
We were planning on leaving the Lake Worth inlet this
evening to head south to Miami overnight, but again the wind will be on the
nose. We want to raise the
sails! So we decided to wait until
the morning to go offshore. The
winds will be coming more from the east, so we should be able to sail. It will also be good to have our
shakedown sail during the day instead of at night when it’s harder to see
what’s going on.
You can always see our current location at: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=08TU8OspZn1uAsEAyoPKqarpMd7Ei1qzs
