We loafed today...
The weather forecast for today was windy, with rain. Sure enough, 20 knots for a while, and of course right on the nose! The anchorages 20 or 40 miles ahead didn't look as secure, so we decided to stop early. There was supposed to be a store here, but we didn't find it. There were public restrooms with hot and cold running water, so we filled our solar shower with warm water and took boat showers. That saved us a bit of our boat tank water. We're trying to conserve as much water as possible so it won't be quite as big a shock when we have to buy water. Places in the Bahamas charge for water - as much as 50 cents a gallon. It also turns out the solar shower (gravity flow) uses less water than our pressure water boat shower.
Tomorrow or Thursday we will be in St Augustine. It sounds like it will be a fun/interesting place to visit. Then on to Daytona Beach. Mary and Dave are North Cape members (the boat club we belong to where we keep our boat) who winter in Daytona Beach. They have a free dock for us to use, an offer of a home cooked meal, a shopping trip to re-provision, a drive on the beach, a chance to do laundry, and an address where we are having a couple of items shipped. What could be better than all that?
Today we saw a boat from Illinois, another Michigan boat, one from California, and we are anchored with a boat from Colorado. The couple on the Colorado boat have a cat and two dogs. With dogs you have to take them ashore a couple of times a day - makes having our 2 cats on board seem pretty simple.
posted by Richard @ 5:56 PM
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3 Comments:
Dad amd I want to know how the Colorado and California boats got there? There's no ICW from those states, nor are there any Great Lakes and Erie Canal.
Chris
PS. Dad wants to know: Are you having any fun, or is it just all work??
Chris
Chris/Dad The California boat was big enough to have come through the Panama Canal. The Colorado boat started up on the east coast some where, but is possibly heading to South America. The hailing p[ort don't really mean too much. Our hailing port is Saline, and you know our boat can't get there! The hailing port can be where the boat actually docks, where the owner lives, or where the boat is documented.
Regarding fun, it's not necessarily "riding the roller coaster fun" but more like having both your grand daughters sitting on your lap (if one were old enough to have two grand daughters!) It's fun seeing dolphins every day, when back home in Lake Erie the only thing you see are dead fish. It's fun seeing boats from all over. It's fun having anchored right by the Statue of Liberty. And it's really fun when it's 72 degrees and sunny in the middle of November. The work is mainly small stuff, most recently putting different lines on our fenders so they hang the right distance down for all the floating docks they have here. Right now I have to take over driving so Sue can have her breakfast.
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