We took a road trip up to Titusville today to check out a couple of yacht yards and see Terry. He has Lee Sea Ann on a mooring at the city marina. She is also up for sale. We wanted to check the yard where he plans to haul her to see if they have room for us and if so how much it would be to store Light Reach there this summer. As we were pulling up to the marina Terry rode up on his bike with Anchor, good timing.. He showed us around the yard (Westland Marina) and introduced us to the manager. She told us they had no room in the yard but would put us on a wait list. As it turns out the yard is not much less than where we have been and Scott didn’t like its exposure to the East. Not much protection in a hard blow. After our tour we headed out to lunch with Terry. He’s gotten a couple of nibbles on the boat but nothing concrete. He hopes to sell her before he heads back north for the summer. Terry captains a boat on Seneca Lake that does 2 hour tourist tours and has to be north by mid-May. The boat will be hauled out the first part of April when he will do some shore side work on her. But he isn’t giving up sailing his own boat and has boat a smaller Tayana which he has up north. We are still holding out to perhaps join him in the Bahamas next year. He might bring the Tayana south or if Lee Sea Ann doesn’t sell he may take her. Only time, opportunity and cooperative weather will give us the answer to that question.
After saying our good-byes to Terry and Anchor we drove out to Merrit Island to check out the Harbor Town Marina on the Canaveral canal as a possible summer storage spot. Lovely yard but also a waiting list and ouch expensive. We were rather surprised by that considering you have to go through a lift bridge and a lock to get to it. We had rather hoped it would be less expensive because of the hassle of getting to it, Ha we were wrong. So we continue to research options for where Light Reach will spend the summer. On our way back we got pelted with hail, heavy rain and wind which was headed toward Stuart on a southeast track. We managed to out run it in the car and get back to the marina before it hit. We hustled to the dingy and out to the boat just before it hit. We didn’t get hammered nearly as bad as Titusville. Poor Terry got stranded with Anchor in the van for two hours! We’ve been having a series of fronts come through every 6 to 8 days which means battening down the hatches and doubling the lines. When the wind blows out of the northwest the mooring field is subject to loads of rock and roll.

The picture is of our new Grand Dog, Penny all decked out for St Paddy’s day