Saturday, May 15, 2010

We are in Fernandina Beach

We left Vero Beach and went to Coco Beach and stayed in the C0c0 Village Marina which was quite nice. Then on the Titusville where we anchored. We then spent a week in Daytona which included 2 nights in an air conditioned house with our friends Ray and Helen. Packet definitely liked that as it was quite warm (90's during the day). We then left Wed. 5/12 with Ray and Helen on Rigamarole to start our trip north together. We stopped at Palm Coast Wednesday night and enjoyed the marina although getting into the slip was a challenge , can't wait until we get north where there are floating docks and not poles. From Palm Coast we went to St. Augustine where we anchored. However we had to anchor twice because after a nice cocktail party on our boat( attended by the people on 3 other boats) our boat swung into our neighbor. Dave and I spent a sleepless night on anchor watch. The next day we set off for Fernandina. About a mile or so away we ran aground. Ray tried to push us off with his dinghy and a power boat tried with his wake but we were hard aground, so a call to BoatUS for a tow. We had to wait about an hour for that. While we were aground, you could see the shoal a small power boat ran aground near us. We finally made it into Fernandina, took Packet ashore, had a late dinner and early to bed. Today we are resting and going out to dinner and tomorrow we will be off to Cumberland Island and Jekell Island. Hope everyone is well and happy.

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  1. I have sinus surgery scheduled for June 1. Hopefully you'll make Beaufort before then or, if not, at least several days after.

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