We have continued our trek down the northern Florida waterway. The weather has been perfect and we have had some nice easy days. Sadly we had to separate from Legacy for now as they had a major electrical breakdown and had to go to a boat yard in Port Canaveral. We hear that they are now fixed so hopefully they will catch up with us again. We spent a night anchored off the ICW opposite the town of Melbourne. Here we saw this little boat anchoring for the night also. Turns out this small boat is being rowed from Cleveland to Key West to raise awareness for Habitat for Humanity. Check out their website : www.habitatcrew.com
Yesterday we chugged on down to Vero Beach and rafted up to a mooring for the night. We have amazed ourselves by leaving today and not getting stuck there. They do not call it Velcro Beach for nothing. As soon as we went ashore we ran into Jon and Bobby-Jo from "Don't Look Back" and then Fran and Floyd from "PriorTies". Immediately we were entreated to stay longer - there is a party tomorrow night etc. etc. It would have been very easy to get stuck for weeks!! But we have plans to meet up with "Charisma" again. They are in Stuart, somewhere we have not been before, so it seemed like this was a good chance to check it out. We should be there this afternoon and have an invitation to go with them to a friends house for dinner tonight - how nice! We think we will stay there 'til Monday - the Florida waterway is no place to be on a sunny weekend!
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It all seems very party`ish what a life!!
Love
Dad
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We have continued our trek down the northern Florida waterway. The weather has been perfect and we have had some nice easy days. Sadly we had to separate from Legacy for now as they had a major electrical breakdown and had to go to a boat yard in Port Canaveral. We hear that they are now fixed so hopefully they will catch up with us again. We spent a night anchored off the ICW opposite the town of Melbourne. Here we saw this little boat anchoring for the night also. Turns out this small boat is being rowed from Cleveland to Key West to raise awareness for Habitat for Humanity. Check out their website : www.habitatcrew.com
Yesterday we chugged on down to Vero Beach and rafted up to a mooring for the night. We have amazed ourselves by leaving today and not getting stuck there. They do not call it Velcro Beach for nothing. As soon as we went ashore we ran into Jon and Bobby-Jo from "Don't Look Back" and then Fran and Floyd from "PriorTies". Immediately we were entreated to stay longer - there is a party tomorrow night etc. etc. It would have been very easy to get stuck for weeks!! But we have plans to meet up with "Charisma" again. They are in Stuart, somewhere we have not been before, so it seemed like this was a good chance to check it out. We should be there this afternoon and have an invitation to go with them to a friends house for dinner tonight - how nice! We think we will stay there 'til Monday - the Florida waterway is no place to be on a sunny weekend!
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First photo shows the NASA hanger with the shuttle launch pad to the left.
We are totally amazed and in awe. Everything went on schedule. Hard to believe this massive rocket contained human beings going to space. We watched from Legacy and were all speechless.
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Ginny
Now get yourselves off to the tropical islands.
Love
Dad
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have enough, for sure.
Back into the Pumpkin/Banana/Yogurt bread with
the 12 other ingredients for the holidays, already
sent loaves to my two daughters and son, it always
works, send them goodies and they write back.
Enjoy the holiday, happy sailing.
have enough, for sure.
Back into the Pumpkin/Banana/Yogurt bread with
the 12 other ingredients for the holidays, already
sent loaves to my two daughters and son, it always
works, send them goodies and they write back.
Enjoy the holiday, happy sailing.
We have had two wonderful days on the waterway. This part of Florida is one of my favorites - there is an abundance of wild life evident. We have seen lots of dolphins and manatees - always neat, and many different forms of bird life. The weather has been great - clear blue skies, nice warm sunshine during the day and cool at night - great for sleeping. Saturday we covered 61.8 waterway miles (a record for us - we had a lot of favorable current but the new engine definitely gives us good speed). We passed right through Daytona and anchored in Rockhouse creek just north of New Smyrna. Sunday we were up before the sparrows even thought of farting and made good speed to the Indian River, just south of Titusville and anchored with a bird's eye view of the shuttle launch pad. We wanted to get here early as we were worried the anchorage would fill up. We needn't have worried - there was one other boat here when we arrived, a few more have trickled in and there is room for another 100 or so! This morning we had the luxury of sleeping in, cooking bacon and eggs for breakfast and sailing our little dinghy around the mother ship! We are crossing our fingers that the launch is a go - we have about another hour and a half to wait and so far all looks good. We are still in the company of Legacy and having many a good evening with them.
Nav notes: Ponce de Leon Inlet - has a reputation for shoaling, went through at mid - tide, stayed in the center of the channel and saw good depths - honor the temp. markers which get moved around.
Rockhouse Creek - great anchorage, plenty of room, swift current but we're used to that by now. We were fine on one anchor. The creek apparently was dredged last year so good depths quite a way in. Charted shoal at the south of the entrance has largely gone.
Indian River anchorage - Pole position for space shots - totally exposed to the north, would only use in fair weather.
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dAD
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Looking at your position on google earth, you must have been very close, if those are the launch pads to the NE of you?
