Life in Eau Gallie Yacht Basin
01 September 2017
'Eau Gallie' translates to 'Rocky Water' apparently. What a lovely name for a popular water area...
Waterline's dockmaster did NOT end up giving us a half-month rebate, so we waited until August proper to move in. As is tradition, Shawn was gone for the first few days after moving into our new location. He had a family reunion of sorts up in Michigan so I spent the weekend by myself. We had internet set up the first day we got there though! A blistering 70Mbps! WOAH!
The AC overheated...again...so I went to a friend's house one day of the weekend. We came to find later a barnacle grew over the intake. Since then, we've had to scrape barnacles off the intake once a week.
We're impatiently waiting for the boatyard to clear out so we can repaint the damn bottom already. EGYB has a do-it-yourself haul out area, but all three spots are taken up and there’s a waiting list. The boats there now have been there for over a year. The new owner of the marina doesn’t seem happy about this though, so we should hopefully be able to haul out soon.
The community here is quite nice. Less ghetto, more quirky independents. There are potlucks every Wednesday which would be wonderful if I didn’t have graduate classes every Wednesday night until I graduate 1.5 years from now.
There is a clubhouse though! Which means I can get a sewing machine and have a place to work with it!!
And, our slip is 5 feet from where we park our cars. This means grocery shopping is a lot less of a hassle now. But the REAL benefit is- our power box is only 5 feet from where we park our cars! I’m one of those 400k people who reserved a Tesla Model 3, and I was really worried about how I’d charge the stupid thing. There’s a supercharger going up 20 minutes away, but those will charge for charge (ha-ha).
The power box offers another 30amp plugin, so we’ll get the relevant adapters and be able to charge at home. What a relief! And…weird. We’ll be powering a car with the same cable to power our house.
On an unrelated note, we went up to see the total solar eclipse in South Carolina. We took our car, not the boat, but it was so amazing I had to note it here!! Absolutely spectacular. Our photos were awful, and so was the traffic, but I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
This weekend the in-laws will be coming over and we’ll spend the weekend boating and doing other fun things. It’s also Shawn’s birthday! We got him a cookie cake. I swear, our wedding cake is just going to be multiple cookie cakes stacked on top of each other.