We found out this evening that my Dad passed away, just short of his 90th birthday. He had a good run. This blog was originally started to keep him informed of our travels as was the purchase of the Spot transmitter so he could track our every move which he appreciated.
We will be driving up to Erie to take care of arrangements. Liberty will be safe here at Palm Coast while we are gone and blog posts will resume once we return and head up the coast again.
Dave
After a not so great night at anchor (so what else is new) we got underway at 0630 hours. It seems as though the wind picked up a bit after we retired (wasn’t supposed to be over 10 knots) and we rocked and pitched around until around 0200 when things settled down to almost a dead calm.
The tide started dropping around 0700 meaning that we were going to spend a good part (6 hours) of the day fighting a foul current. Our normal cruise of 7 knots was netting us speeds in the low 5 knot range which isn’t a lot of fun but there isn’t anything you can do about it except watch the world go by slower than normal. There is a five mile slow, minimum wake manatee zone just south of New Smyrna and a two mile zone just north of the town that further slows one down. The only good news was that we were able to make the George E. Musson bridge which is just outside New Smyrna with five minutes to spare. As the bridge only opens on the top and bottom of the hour, missing it by a few minutes results in a long wait for the next opening.
As you go north you approach Daytona Beach and this being a beautiful Sunday we met more boats than you can count heading in the opposite direction apparently going out the only inlet into the ocean, that being the Ponce de Leon inlet. We must have got the timing perfect as we were in the region around 1000 hours, just when everybody and their brother was heading out for some fun in the sun. It was just as busy as the “miserable mile” in Fort Myers at times, only we seemed to be subjected to the boat traffic for fifteen miles.
Even though the going can be a bit slow at times, listening to the low throb of a diesel (60 db in the pilot hourse) for hours sure beats listening to the high pitched whine of the outboard on our C Dory (80 db). A 20 db increase in sound equates to a loudness gain factor of 4X to the human ear.
Daytona Beach property. You would think they owner would own an outboard boat with more than two engines.
Arriving at Palm Coast we took on 35 gallons of fuel just to top off our tanks and pumped out the holding tank as it was convenient.
We walked to the European Village (Condo’s with shops and restaurants on the ground floor) but since it is Sunday the shops are closed leaving only the bars and restaurants. We didn’t have any interest in either so came back to the boat having not spent a nickle.
At the dock at Palm Coast. Gary Miller’s boat (fellow EYC member) spends the winter on this dock. One of the locals commented that an Erie boat just left (last week) and has been replaced by another Erie boat. Gary is in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, a bit ahead of us.
Tomorrow we should be able to make it to the free dock at the intersection of the ICW and St. Johns River at Jacksonville and the following day to Jeckyll Island. Crossing St. Andrew Sound a few miles south of Jeckyll always has us concerned as it is a short crossing but can be quite treacherous. The forecast for the coming week is predominantly east south east winds of 10 to 15 knots. The tide will be rising and current flooding from 1300 hours on so the current with the wind will be in the same direction making it easy to get across in the afternoon when we arrive.
Today: 59 sm in 8.4 hours. Total: 372 sm.
Dave
Yesterday we never left the dock which was expected given the forecast, hence no blog posting last evening. It was windy, around 25 knots from the southwest. We did make good use of the time off, if you want to call it that. We were able to clean up the starboard side boat deck trim with Acetone, and give the decks a good scrubbing. Bobbi got in a walk and after a short nap and a dip in the pool it was off to dinner with Scott and his wife Deb (Firefly). Dinner was at a converted diesel generator power station (American Icon Brewery) where one of the diesel engines was converted into a backdrop for the bar. As you can tell by the name the place brewed a lot of craft beers which were wasted on us as we don’t drink beer.
This is looking in the end of the engine. of course the crank and rods have been removed. The hoses on the left feed beer taps. The engine was a 1937 750 kilowatt Busch-Sulzer diesel.
From the company website, the engine is behind the bar.
After dinner we walked a block to the Kilted Mermaid, a “funky beer and wine bar with a light menu, live entertainment and a colorful art-filled setting”. It was reminiscent of the coffee houses of the late 60’s and early 70’s were people would get up and perform. The light menu specialty was a chocolate fondue (6 varieties) and of course Bobbi and Deb got one to split. The music was very good, performed by a husband and wife team, the owner (wearing a kilt) was pretty drunk and clientele when we arrived was mostly our age. After 2100 hours, us oldsters began leaving to be replaced by the under 40 crowd.
Deb and Scott outside the Kilted Mermaid.
When we arose this morning the wind had shifted into the North East just as predicted and we left the dock at 0645. From 0700 to 0900 the wind velocity was 15 to 20 knots, from 0900 to 1200 hours 10 to 15 knots and continued to drop just as predicted. The winds in the latter part of the afternoon were about 5 knots, but increased to almost 10 as the sea breeze filled in as the land temperatures climbed into the upper 80’s.
Early morning had us busy cleaning off the pilot house windows every once in a while due to the accumulated salt spray. There wasn’t enough spray coming over the bow at any one time to make use of the wipers, just occasional light splashes that would quickly evaporate leaving the salt behind.
We had planned on anchoring behind the train track causeway to Cape Canaveral but it would have been just after 1600 hours which still left hours of daylight. If you are going to anchor, you might as well keep moving and it will make our run to the Palm Coast Marina tomorrow just a bit shorter at 65 miles instead of 74 miles. We always seem to just miss the bridge opening at New Smyrna so that will cost us about 20 minutes and there is a slow speed zone that runs for miles just south of New Smyrna.
Sunset on the Mosquito Lagoon. We are anchored 1/2 mile from one shore and about 1-1/2 miles from the opposite shore, kind of in the middle of nowhere.
Today: 89 sm in 12.8 engine hours. Total: 313 sm.
Dave
Leaving our slip at the Federal Park at 0700 the St. Lucie lock was only a few hundred yards away. The drop in this lock was about 10′, much less than normal as Lake O is low as was the St. Lucie River. Once out of the lock we were in waters that are influenced by the tides and today was our lucky day. We rode the tide down (the current was pushing us) all the way to the ICW, some 15 miles distant. We were finally able to turn north and again we got a push from the current until we were about five miles from Fort Pierce. At that point the tide was rising and with the water pouring in the Fort Pierce inlet we watched our speed drop to about one half knot below normal cruise. Passing the inlet, we got a free ride all the way to Vero, although as we neared Vero the effect became less and less as we were quite north of the ocean inlet. All in all we only spent about an hour bucking an unfavorable current. The wind was always from aft and never more than 12 knots.
We arrived at the marina at 1440 hours and took on 55 gallons of diesel which works out to 4.1 miles/gallon. That would be pathetic for a truck, but not too bad for a 26,000 lb boat. We started a load of laundry, Bobbi hiked up to Walgreens and Publix while the skipper changed one of the diesel fuel filters (it has been two years and started to show evidence of minor clogging on the vacuum gauge) and filled the water tanks. We took a dip in their pool (fixed the heater since the last time we were here) and then our friend Scott, owner of Firefly showed up for dinner which was served on the back deck of Liberty.
It was pretty much a typical day aboard, one lock, a few bridges that needed opened, some wild rolling around as big power boats waked us and Bobbi said nasty things about them and a bit of boring piloting.
Liberty at the dock in Vero.
Firefly, sister ship to Liberty. Scott had the green strip on the topsides redone this year. It isn’t paint, but a vinyl wrap. The cost is a lot less than a paint job and should last about 10 years.
Tomorrow might be a lay day. The wind forecast is supposed to be South to Southwest 15 to 25 knots which is a bit out of our comfort range. What is worse is that the wind is supposed to shift around about midnight to the North then going Northeast before dropping. This means that if anchored you are going to be in a bad spot early or a bad spot late as the wind clocks around. Bad meaning exposed to wind and waves. We will see what the early morning forecast says but Bobbi votes to stay and check out the pool for another day. Besides, the boat decks could use a scrubbing and we could get the other side of the boat deck trim cleaned up.
Today 55 sm in 7.3 hours. Total: 224 sm.
Dave
In an effort to beat the train and the wind on Lake O. this morning we rolled out of the rack at 0630. The locks start operating at 0700 and it was only about 1/4 mile from our dock. The problem is a railroad swing bridge that was between us and the lock. Boaters have reported waiting an hour for the bridge to open to pass through. There is no operator for the bridge, the train conductor stops the train, closes the bridge and then after going over it stops the train again and goes back to re-open the bridge. Trains have been more frequent as of late, we remember waiting forever for it to open for us to pass.
We walked down to check out the bridge status in the fog before 0700 and to our surprise it was open, having been closed all the previous evening starting at 1700 hours. This only make sense as the locks stop operating at that time and so no boats would be passing. Hurrying back to the boat we started the engine and quickly got past the bridge before any train arrived. Approaching the lock we found the gates open and a green light so into the lock we went. The drop in the Moore Haven lock is only a few feet so that went quickly and we headed up the rim route until we reached Clewiston, home of Roland Martin marina. If you are an old bass fisherman you probably recognize the name. We could have easily made this marina yesterday and saved ourselves two hours travel time today (assuming they had room for us). However, we really didn’t need the extra two hours and saved $40 by staying in Moore Haven. This means we were “paid” $20/hour motoring this morning…. or something like that :). Fortunately one of our chart plotters has the full bread crumb trail from our last three trips though this area and we needed it because the fog was so thick for the first hour that visibility was limited to about two boat lengths. By 0800 the fog lifted and we could enjoy the sights, such as all the gators that frequent these shallow waters. Some would wait until you were almost on them before diving.
Early morning always brings out the paranoid nature in us, this morning it seemed like our boat speed wasn’t what is should have been relative to the RPM’s we were running. We did a crazy Ivan (turned 180 degrees) to check our speed in the other direction. Sure enough there was a bit of current which mostly compensated for the speed drop. We know we slow down in confined waters due to additional drag, we just weren’t sure if we had other issue. An optical tachometer confirmed our engine RPM as well as shaft speed given our transmission reduction value so no problem there. Overall we seemed to be lacking about one and one half tenths of a knot of boat speed. The problem with spending your life in sailboats is that one tenth of a knot is significant and we hate to give that up with our cruising speed being a whole seven knots. As the boat hasn’t been out of the water in two and a half years, only having a diver give it a scrub once a month it is probable that the bottom isn’t as pristine as we would like it. We will know later in the summer when we haul out in Erie. In reality one tenth of a knot only translates to about 15 minutes of additional travel time over a full day but still……
The Lake O Navigational Depth stands at 5.4 feet today. The Corps of Engineers is preparing the lake for the rainy season so the lake is down almost two feet from our previous crossings. You might think all of Florida is a sand pile but the reality is that there is rock under that sand. We have never seen the rocks along side the channel going out into the lake before as they have always been under water. The shallowest spot we saw was 5.75 feet, we draw 3.75 feet.
We got off the lake at 1215 hours after an uneventful crossing.
The is the daily burning of the sugar cane fields along the shoreline which makes harvesting the cane easier.
Winds were forcast to be East at 5 to 10, we never saw more than 5 knots until immediately after we got off the lake. Winds picked up from 10 to 15. We managed to avoid a beating on the lake on the four times we crossed over. Mother Nature will is probably saving our thrashing for a later time.
The Port Mayaca lock gates on the east end of the lake were open at both ends. We were able to motor straight through.
Once past Port Mayaca you are traveling on the St. Lucie river. we passed the “Honey Fitz” tied up along the canal. This 93 footer was the Presidential Yacht for JFK. The yacht has served five presidents and is only one two yachts able to fly the Presidential Seal.
The finger dock is short to say the least but fortunately there was a piling that we could use to tie off the stern. The two “walk up” docks don’t get a piling so if are longer than about 25 feet you would have a real issue trying to tie off the boat effectively.
When we walked by the (closed) office at the “maina”, using the term loosely we saw our name on the Welcome board. How nice of them to welcome us.
Arriving at 1535 hours allowed us to get in a walk to take in the sights so to speak and type up this blog posting before our 1800 hour happy hour, made all the more happier by having this “task” taken care of.
Today, 63 sm in 8.8 engine hours. Total: 169 sm.
Dave
Once again departure time was 0800. That was a little later than we wanted but we were still attempting to pay for our stay. Just like last evening, no attendant to be found who could take our $15. Once we were underway we made a few calls, the first to the “reservation” line for the National Park System. We spent 13 minutes on the phone with them and the net result was there was no way for us to pay for a walk up site on line. We needed to pay the park attendant. We finally called the Franklin Park and after some discussion she told us to forget about the charge. I guess we won’t impact the Federal deficit much by not paying the $15. We will be staying at another Federal Park dock tomorrow after crossing Lake Okeechobee but we were able to make a reservation on line and also pay for it in advance using a credit.
$1.5 million for this house along the Caloosahatchee which doesn’t seem to be a bad price all things considered.
We only had to deal with one lock today, the Ortona lock. This lock master was a little more relaxed then the last one. Two other boats locked through with us and he didn’t come around to check to see if all hands had life jackets on (we wore the ones we used for sailing ones rather than the float coats today) and didn’t say anything about shutting our engine down. The big sport fish that was in the lock with us hadn’t shut his engines down and I decided that I wouldn’t unless he did. We didn’t get our hands slapped.
When we approached the lock a 30′ twin outboard powered boat was floating around just outside the lock. The sport fish had come up on our stern at the last moment as he was traveling fast, probably in the 25 knot range and hailed the lock requesting lockage before we contacted the lock. The lock attendent replied that once the gates were open to come in. As the outboard was first in line it seemed to take him forever to decide to enter the lock. Mr. Sport Fish asked us if he minded if he went ahead of us so he wouldn’t have to pass us once we came out of the lock. We said go right ahead but we were set up for a starboard side lockage and as he wanted the starboard side said the lock was big enough for all three of the boats to be on the same side. Of course once we entered the lock that was found not to be true and Sport Fish hailed the outboard on the VHF to see if he could go to the port side. No answer. Since the Sport Fish probably felt guilty for cutting in front of us they had a fire drill to move their fenders to the port side so they could take that wall and all of us could fit. Once we had settled down in the lock I could see what the issue was. The outboard had no VHF antenna. He must have been hanging around outside the lock waiting for anther boat to come by to get the lock attendant to open the gates. That also explains why he didn’t respond to the Sport Fish when hailed. A hand held VHF radio isn’t that expensive. The outboard shut down his engines in the lock which is probably a good thing as they appeared to be a pair of 250 hp two cycle engines as they blew a lot of blue smoke when running.
They fill these locks by cracking the gates to allow the water to come in. We needed to come up eight feet in the lock and it took forever.
The guy with the Sport Fish looked like he was having a bit of fun keeping the boat positioned at times.
Quiz Time:
Both of these pictures of our chart plotter were taken nearing the dock in Moore Haven.
The boat is near the center of the screen, the concentric circles are at 2.5 mile distances, Lake O is in the upper right corner.
Zooming in a bit, this picture was taken 10 seconds later…..
The boat is still near the center of the screen and the concentric rings are one mile apart.
Either Raymarine (chart plotter) or CMap (chart data) has some real issues. We can’t go from being two miles from the lake (the reality) to being 10 miles from the lake in 10 seconds.
At the dock in Moore Haven. We are the only ones here. Dockage is $40 ($1/foot), well worth it to be able to run the AC all night as it is hot and humid.
We had a list of 20 items we wanted to take care of before leaving Burnt Store. The only thing that didn’t get done was cleaning the grunge off the boat deck trim. The only thing that will clean it is Acetone and since we were at a high dock with the edge in easy reach we tackled the port side of the boat this afternoon. Fresh Acetone on a paper towel cleans about two inches. There are a lot of two inch segments on a 40′ boat. We can do the other side when we are at a high dock starboard side too.
Today, 41 sm in 6.2 engine hours. Total: 106 sm.
Dave
We left the dock at 0810 this morning, a little later than planned as we forgot to turn off the water heater in the condo before we left the previous night. While Bobbi walked back to the condo (getting in her steps for her Fitbit) I readied the boat for sea. This actually takes a while as you have to bring in the electrical cords, retrieve dock lines, un-rig fenders and fender boards as well as powering up all the electronics and doing some engine checks.
Finny the bird is aboard. This can only mean one thing now. The boat is ready for departure.
Once we got going and out into Charlotte Harbor we re-learned the other items we need to do before leaving the dock. That is to prepare the contents of the cabinets from being tossed around as we were rocked by a beam sea left over from the north east winds the day before and/or powerboat wakes which are a fact of life on the ICW. Once out about five miles we could stop the boat and do some engine checks (all systems normal) and replace the dummy speed transducer plug with the one with a paddle wheel. We don’t keep the paddle wheel version installed at the dock as it would quickly foul and become useless. It is required to compute true wind speed and direction. While a GPS will give you ground speed you also need speed through the water (affected by current) in order to get accurate wind information.
After crossing the harbor to Cayo Costa we make a left turn and start heading south on the ICW. Around 1100 hours the parade of boats heading for Cabbage Key in search of the illusive $15 hamburger made famous by Jimmy Buffet (Cheeseburger in Paradise) starts to go by us. The chop stirred up by these boats ends up as spray coating our pilot house windows in a salty mess. The wind was up and down, sometimes dropping down to one knot and other times picking up to fifteen. We head into Cape Coral/Fort Myers through the “miserable mile”. Boat traffic heading out was like driving on I-75; boat after boat. Fortunately we were heading in with few people going in our direction.
We wanted to get through the W.P. Franklin lock as we planned on anchoring at the campground as we weren’t able to get a reservation for one of their reserved docks. The last lockage is at 1630 hours, we arrived with five minutes to spare and went through by ourselves. As we came to a stop along the lock wall the lockmaster informed us of new rules. Everybody must have a life jacket on and the engine must be shut off. Our nearest lifejackets are float coats kept in the pilot house so we donned them. In the process I found my long lost souwester (foul weather hat). We bought it years ago in Seattle and I was really fond of it although it has never been worn, probably because I could never find it. It was hiding in the sleeve of one of the float coats since at least 2014. One float coat is blue, the other orange. I have worn the orange one before thinking that if I ever went overboard I would want somebody to see me. The blue one has never been used. The lockmaster questioned our jackets, wanting to know if they were life jackets. I wonder if he thought we just liked jackets that were covered in reflective material? Maybe they don’t see float coats down south as who would want to wear a coat combined with a life jacket? The shutting off the engine thing I found to be a bit weird also. In Virginia they don’t want you to shut off your engine in the lock to the Dismal Swamp because if the engine doesn’t start you are going to inconvenience a lot of other boaters. I hope the Erie Canal doesn’t start such nonsense as we use our engine and thrusters to maintain position along the lock walls. It is a lot easier than trying to control 26,000 lbs of boat by hanging on to a line, with all the turbulence in the lock and the wind blowing you around. Do they ever ask boaters before making up their “rules”. Life jackets, OK. Shutting down the engine, NO. They did give us a pamphlet detailing the new rules but nowhere in that document could I find anything about shutting down the engine except for a statement saying to obey the lockmaster. I don’t think I will argue with him anytime soon.
I could have used this hat last summer delivering the 56′ sailboat from Annapolis to Erie. You don’t need such gear inside a pilothouse trawler.
We weren’t able to get a reservation for the docks we wanted at the campground so we planned on anchoring here. The Water Way Guide indicated that only the end slips (there are eight) were big enough for large boats and the interior slips were for small boats due to beam restrictions. Two of the intermediate slips cannot be reserved, they are on a first come, first served basis. Our first attempt at anchoring failed, probably due to the fact that we didn’t let out enough scope but this is a tiny spot and we need room to swing in a complete circle if required. After retrieving the anchor we noticed that the non-reservation slips were empty and it looked like we could fit in one of the slips so we gave it a try and ended up with a nice $15/night dock with power and water.
The normal price is $30/night but we have the Lifetime Senior National Park pass.
Today: 65 sm in 8.8 engine hours.
Dave
We haven’t posted anything in a while and thought this would be a good time to make sure that all systems including our ability to post to our blog are still go for takeoff.
The current plan is for us to start taking Liberty north on Monday, April 22 assuming we have decent weather. This pretty much means that some of you will be able to have something to read that is boat related with your morning coffee for a few months as regular blog posts will resume at that time.
While it normally takes us about three months to make the trek north or south, we hope to do it a bit quicker this time around. On our last trip north (2016) from St. Pete we left Burnt Store on 3/3 and arrived Erie 5/24, almost eleven weeks of travel from here. By leaving in late April we hope to have fewer weather delays and with more daylight we can possibly put more miles under the keel each day. We would need to average 36 nm/day (41.4 sm/day) to do the trip in 60 days. While that sound fairly easy, weather delays and days off for R&R (can’t be moving every day without a break) makes it hard to keep to that average. Bobbi jumps ship the first week of June so she can resume her day job grand kid sitting once they are out of school. A number of people have mentioned they might be interested in going for a boat ride with me for a few days and as June gets closer we will see how that might pan out. It won’t be the first time that a Pilgrim was single-handed up the coast if it comes to that.
This might be a good time to catch up on items of note so we can devote the travel blog to just that, boat travel.
Driving back after the Christmas holiday found the truck packed to the gills once more.
As simple as the C Dory is, it still needs work. In this case the varnish hadn’t been touched since 2002 and we needed to paint a few items in the bare bones cabin.
In late January Doc (our knee surgeon) and his wife Monica and, Bill ( the new owner of Freedom) and his SO Coleen stayed at our condo for a few days. Our esteemed commodore of the EYC, Bill and his wife Patty were in the area and they stopped by for the day so we all went out in Liberty. Of course they managed to bring the coldest weather that we had all winter down with them, as highs were in the upper 60’s.
The Pilgrim Meridian^2 was just completing the Great Loop, and we met them to escort them into Burnt Store. Fred and Becky have been making improvements to the the boat and they are slowly getting there.
Our Wisconsin friends and dock mates Denis and Laura were out sailing one afternoon we we took a lot of pictures of their boat. I told them they might need the photo’s for the brokerage listing when the time comes :).
Denis and Laura reciprocated, taking photo’s of Liberty as we cruised by.
We finally got kicked out of the Rec Center’s pool shown above. The marina is evidently not contributing to the upkeep of this pool, instead installing a heater and new furniture at the “boaters” pool. The boaters pool is ok, but not as interesting as it is a simple rectangular pool. We used our last passes for the Rec Center pool the day they expired and had the pool to ourselves.
We decided that it might make sense to purchase a months worth of dry stack storage. The boat is kept on bunks in the marina’s storage yard and you call when you want the boat launched. You arrive, finding the boat in the water at which time you go out and when you come in you just tie the boat up and walk away. The marina takes care to of the rest, pulling the boat, washing it down, flushing the engine and putting it away. The following YouTube videos shows the procedure with our still un-named C Dory.
Making a long story short, this spoiled us. We are giving up the slip that Liberty has been in for the last two years and going the rack storage route. This saves us about $100/month for dry vs wet storage plus we don’t have to pay $45/month to store our trailer anymore, which we sold.
Our LNVT friends Dave and Bicki were in town and stayed with us for a few nights. While they were here we went over to our favorite sand spit on Cayo Costa and met Mike whose recently purchased Rosborough 246 is off our port side. It was a bit choppy coming back, fortunately Dave and Bicki are boat people and didn’t mind getting bounced around a bit. At our normal cruising speed of 15 at 3500 RPM, we slowed to 9 climbing the back side of the waves until we reached the crest and took off down the front face at 15. The C Dory will do 20 at 4000 RPM and tops off at 30 at 5500. With only 2 degrees of dead rise at the stern (virtually a flat bottom) anything over 20 gets uncomfortable unless the water is like glass.
As Liberty won’t be back to Florida anytime soon we thought we should take out our neighbors out on the boat before everybody started to disappear north for the summer. On board were Mary Ann, Sheila, Walt, Ruth, Gerald and Mike. Unfortunately Bob and Diane had to go north early and missed the fun. After the day being perfectly clear, clouds appeared on the horizon about a half hour before sunset so there wasn’t much of a sunset to be seen.
Our friend Floyd from Nova Scotia stopped by for an overnight visit so we took a short ride in the C Dory and then tied up behind Liberty for a while. This is more than likely the only time these two girls will be together unless the C Dory comes north for some reason. Liberty makes her look small.
We made a summer cover for the C Dory although it isn’t quite as tight as I would have liked. There is a framework on the cabin top which keeps the cover about 8″ above the boat and a few plastic vents near the peak. Openings at the bow and stern should allow enough air flow to keep and mold or mildew at bay. We will be back in late July just to check on things.
Yesterday was a beautiful day with light winds and temperatures in the mid 80’s. We spent the day with friends Mike and Catherine on their boat, with the intention of going to Don Pedro State Park. Even though we left at 0900, we didn’t get there in time to get a spot on one of the dozen docks. With out a dinghy there is no place to land a boat on the shore so it was off to the Gulf side of Cayo Costa where we pretty much had the place to ourselves.
We need to have Liberty ready to go at the end of the week as this weekend will be spent in Tampa. Bobbi has a Dragon Boat race on Saturday and Sunday morning we will be with our niece and her family. Day one when we leave we plan on covering 56 sm (49 nm). As mileage on the ICW is given in sm we will be keeping track using those units although we measure speed in knots (7 knots = 8 mph).
0 Miles traveled 🙂
Dave
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