Voyage Plan

The next 176 STatute Miles; six days (moving)

currently at - Camachee Cove Yacht Harbor, St. Augustine, FL [STM 776]

21 miles to - Marineland Marina,  [STM 797]

34 miles to - Halifax Marina, Daytona Beach, FL [STM 831]

15 miles to - New Smyrna, FL [STM 846]

32 miles to - Titusville, FL [STM 878]

40 miles to - Melbourne, FL [STM 918]

34 miles to - Vero Beach, FL [STM 952]

This falls into the realm of "bound for …", which mariners know is not necessarily the same as "going to …".  [Your mileage may vary.]

These will be shorter travel days because: 1) the days are shorter now that we are near the winter solstice, 2) it is too cold to spend too many hours in our exposed cockpit, and 3) we can only move when the weather is favorable, which is maybe half of the days. And we are still timing the tides and currents [see separate blurb].

Add to that - conditions out in the ocean usually involve big seas and unfavorable winds at this time of year, and you can see why we are slowing down and staying inland in the ICW.

We are now about 2 months behind schedule [we had a schedule?] We had hoped to be in South Florida a couple of months ago, when the days were longer and the temperature was warmer.  We had several delays [coincidently, about 8 weeks of them], most of them planned or expected - to pickup/dropoff crew, visit with Naomi in Toronto [Mississauga], spend a week in the New York area visiting with our son and local relatives, attend the Annapolis Boat Show, sit out Hurricane Sandy, and travel to Berkeley for Thanksgiving. And now, St. Augustine is such a great town that we hate to leave.

We're here through New Years – informal get together today on New Year's Eve here in the Camachee Cove Captain's Lounge.  Then, the next weather window, and we are out of here [we think].