So after spending a wonderful 5 nights in Vero Beach we finally extracted ourselves and moved south for our haulout and new cultlass bearing.
Vero Beach is a great Place to hang out and chill. We spent US Thanksgiving with the local boating community complete with potluck dinner with 150 other boaters. lots of musicians and drinks after dinner, I played a couple songs and it was alot of fun. The weather improved and we even managed a beach day and some boggie boarding with the crew from LaSmala. Also many thanks to John from Tampa and his kids for buying us a round of Ice Cream after the park.
We headed to Fort Pierce Sun and met up with the Momo's for beer and football. the next morning we did a couple jobs and were ready at the haul out dock at the required time. Cracker boy marine runs like a clock. They had us out of the water, new cutlass bearing installed and back in before the hull even started to dry out. Tracy and Eva went for a walk and ended up passing by a grape fruit processing plant. A truck load of fruit was ready to pull out and a nice local brought them out half a dozen fresh picked grapefruit.
We moved south in the afternoon to St. Lucie inlet area and will move toward Lake Worth tomorrow. The wind has been blowing hard out of the east/ North east for days with no sign in sight. We are ready to cross to the Bahamas as soon as the weather window is right. Until then we will keep going south to get a better angle on crossing the gulf stream. Plus I really need to bring my talents to south beach. haha.