Alulquoy
| Vessel Name: | Alulquoy |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Hunter 450 |
| Hailing Port: | Stillwater, MN |
| Crew: | Doug, Eric and Ken |
22 November 2011 | Ft. Pierce to Hobe Sound
Anchoring Out - Ft. Pierce to Hobe Sound
Low tide this morning is at 11AM and there is a bridge we need to passage that is within 15 minutes of our departure from Harbortown Marina in Ft Pierce. The bridge is 65' high and our mast is approx 64' high. So, we departed at 9:30 to move very slowly under the bridge.
21 November 2011 | Fort Pierce FL
A Nice Day - Canaveral FL to Fort Pierce FL
We departed Cape Marina at Canaveral FL at 7:30AM and transited the channel inlet to the ocean. We set the sails at 10AM with winds from the ESE at 10-15 MPH.Caribbean music is playing and we are feeling good in 80 degree temps. "Looking good Billy Ray - Feeling good Lewis."...That is a fun quote from [...]
20 November 2011 | Canaveral
U-Turn - Canaveral to Canaveral - Lesson Learned
We thought we would rest and recover from our BAM-BOOM-BANG night sail by sleeping in and taking our time today. The plan was a leisurly motor down the intracoastal and put 30 miles behind us.
20 November 2011
Thank You Readers
We just wanted to say thanks to our readers for your comments. We often don't have time to respond to each email and wanted to let you know we have receieved and appreciate your comments. Also, this site only allows us to post one picture at a time under the free plan. I'm sure there will be photos to [...]
19 November 2011 | Offshore to Cape Canaveral
Roller Coaster, BAM-POUND-BOOM! - Offshore to Cape Canaveral
It is still dark and we are standing watch. As winds become more south than north, it is making our sailing more difficult and driving us inland toward the coast. We have been sailing approx 6 to 10 miles offshore to avoid commercial traffic and maintain our final destination. Ideally, we should be 20-40 [...]
Anchoring Out - Ft. Pierce to Hobe Sound
As we approached the bridge, we could see the current bridge height was 64.5'. After some discussion, the skipper proceeded as we closed our eyes and crossed our fingers that the crossing would not sound expensive. Success, we cleared the bridge by 6 to 12 inches.
As we continued to motor down the intracoastal, we noticed that we were in a short parade of 7 sailboats moving south. We proceeded in an orderly fashion within a couple hundred feet of each other for several hours. This appears to be a very common snowbird process during this time of year.
The intracoastal near Ft. Pierce is several hundred yards wide and over a period of 30 miles becomes fairly narrow. The ocean meets the intracoastal near St. Lucie and if we would have taken a right turn, we could have transitted the Okeechobee canal through the state to Fort Meyers.
As we passed St. Lucie moving south, the intracoastal is filled with mangroves and birds. Now we see the first sign of expensive waterway homes. As we pass St. Lucie, we discuss our plan to anchor overnight on the intracoastal and choose a location titled Hobe Sound. The last peaceful outpost before Jupiter and Palm Beach.
Hobe (Hobay) Sound was named by the Indians and it seems only proper for Alulquoy to anchor there as Alulquoy is named from an Indian myth. Hobe Sound is a slight widening of the intracoastal with mangroves and wildlife on one side and rural expensive homes on the other side. It is a nice quiet anchorage where we can view the beauty of the night sky.
As we settle in around 3PM, a small airplane conducts several fly bys with the traditional tilting of the wings. Pretty cool. As night falls we enjoy our friendship by listening to several musical artists on the stereo. Cat Stevens was a hit. Are we showing our age yet?
As our anchor light was still on the fritz, we awoke a couple different times during the evening to change batteries in our temporary anchor light. All in all, it was another good day and peaceful evening.
We are getting very close to completing our boat delivery.
