01/21/2008, Melbourne Florida
We have spent the last month at a Marina in Merritt Island. During which time we spent on the Brightwork. We also painted the cockpit. She is looking very spiffy. We spent time as well playing with our families and it was great to see everyone.
We are currently anchored at Dragon Point and have been for the past 3 days. We had a strong Cold Front push through which had some pretty hefty winds ( 45mph ) with better gusts. It appears that this time of year in Central Florida colds fronts move through regularly with great weather in between. While at anchor, we have enjoyed the daily dolphin show. We have never seen anything like it. It is almost like being at a marine park with them jumping completely out of the water daily. It looks like we will leave in the morning for Ft. Peirce so stay tuned for more. Destination still the keys at this point.
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Comments [2]
It looks like you're having a great time in FL!
Patrick we sincerely miss you here at VO. It puts my mind at ease to see you having a great time and I hope you continue to "live the dream"!
Play with the dolpins for all of us. :)
You are never far from our minds and hearts....
Thanks for keeping the blog.
12/22/2007, Merritt Island
We decided the ICW was the best route for this leg, due to fronts passing. The water was shallow again, but navigable. The current weather patterns are a cold front every 4 days, however, we are having cool nights and warm days. We are currently at a marina in Merritt Island for several weeks before heading further south. We are enjoying family and friends for several weeks here. We are just a couple of miles from the Cape Canaveral and watched a rocket being launched the other day. Hopefully, the shuttle will go as scheduled on January 10th, that will be a highlight! More to come.
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12/09/2007, St. Augustine Florida
We left Beaufort SC on Wednesday morning around 9 am. The weather called for winds to be 10 to 15 and die down to 5 knots during the later part of the day. Well the forecasters were wrong.... winds picked up as soon as we got out of the channel (13 miles out) to about 25 knots with gusts over 30. Seas were very rough, the worst I have experienced! We new at that point it was going to be a very long night. We continued on our coarse to Jacksonville Florida. Waves were somewhere around 20 feet and fairly close together. After many prayers were said by both Pat and myself, the winds finally subsided around 6 am on Thursday morning. We still had seas of 8 fett or better. We certainly made good time surfing down 25 foot swells at 11 knots. We made it to the St. Johns River channel entrance at 9 am on Thursday morning, of course on an outgoing tide with the winds from the east, however, we made it. We have never been so tired... we pulled into anchor, emailed a few friends and crashed for the evening. We then had an easy day and a half to St. Augustine where we are now. I am sorry I don't have any pictures from this leg, our camera was submerged when waves crashed into the cockpit unexpectedly. Fortunately the marina had a courtesy car and we went to walmart today to get a new camera. More to come
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