Linda does more Laundry, sheets, towels, etc. since its free. Linda and Karen go for a walk after lunch and I work on some stuff on the boat, fill water tanks, clean up, blog, etc. We have dinner on the boat.
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| Halifax Yacht Club |
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| Tom Stead Memorial Bridge, replaced a Draw bridge 4 years ago. |
Linda spends the morning reading by the pool and I join her and after I clean up. We split fish tacos for lunch.
I go back to the boat and run the engine for 20 minutes in case I screwed something up. Always leery when I change a bunch of stuff on the engine.
It clouds up by 3:00 PM and starts to lightly rain. Linda and Karen both do some laundry here at the Yacht Club, it is free to use. We later walk to Senorita Mexican Kitchen for dinner.
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| Another early start |
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| Haulover Canal |
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| Still lots of hurricane grounded boats |
We get to the Halifax Yacht Club around 2:30. Nice warm sunny day. The Tiki Bar and Cafe is open. It opens on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We never seem to be here on those days.
We all sit up wind of Karen and have dinner and drinks.
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| Halifax Yacht Club |
Mark and Karen leave for Titusville and we dinghy into Cocoa to head to one of our favorite hardware stores. I do manage to stump them on some of my boat plumbing needs. Hopefully the parts I ordered to be set to St. Augustine will do the trick.
We meet up with “Shoreline Traveler” on the free dock. They got bounced pretty hard against the dock last night and did not get a lot of sleep.
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| New Bridge nearing completion |
We leave for Titusville and get there around 1:30 and fuel up and pump out before we head to our slip. We meet up the “Blow Away Too”, Alain and Diane, who will be hauling their boat in a couple days at the marina next door. We go to “Hoffmans Table”, a new to us restaurant that is very good. The old main street at Titusville is under going a revival with new pubs, restaurants, etc. 10 years ago most of the store fronts were empty.
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| Nile, Linda, Diane & Alain |
Early morning thunderstorm offshore, moving away from us.
No wind this morning and the noseeums are out in force. Extra motivation to get us moving.
Our old friends, from traveling south last Fall “Shoreline Traveler” catches up to us, until they stop for fuel. We will see them later as they plan on staying on the free dock at Cocoa. We get a message from Mark that Karen has Covid.
We anchor on the northeast side of the bridge causeway to avoid the forecast southeast winds building this evening. Turns out we made a good choice the boats on the south side were rockin and rollin most of the night.
I replace our leaking water pump with a spare one that Mark has. I really like our old pump, which was variable speed, ran very quietly. Apparently lot of people had problems with them and the pump is no longer manufactured. We got over 10 years out of it and I wanted to buy another, but no one makes anything similar. The replacement pump is on/off, very noisy. I work on designing in an accumulator that will smooth out the pump operation. I order a accumulator and other plumbing stuff and have it shipped to St. Augustine Municipal Marina.
My other morning project is to defrost the refrigerator.
Today is Karen Hallquist’s Birthday and we all, Mark & Karen, Robert & Karen and Linda and I drive to a Brazilian restaurant in Melbourne, not as good as the one we ate at in Fort Lauderdale on Christmas day, but still pretty good.
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| Nile, Mark, Linda, Karen, Karen, Robert |
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| Birthday Girl |
We stop at a West Marine to buy an accumulator, but the Melbourne store does not have any in stock. In the evening I order an accumulator and other plumbing stuff and have it shipped to St. Augustine Municipal Marina.
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| White Seal leaves |
White Seal leaves and Sea Vu Play ties up with us. Linda and Karen walk to the Post Office to send back our My Island Wifi devices that we used in the Bahamas for a refund. Mark and I catch up with them for lunch at “El Cid” a unique Mexica restaurant, that they ate at last Fall. Then we walked to the Vero Beach Museum of Art, to see a display of 1930’s custom art Deco automobiles. Back on the boat I change out the spark plugs in the outboard engine that are getting rather fouled. Runs much better now.
