Trucking up to Cocoa
Monday 22nd March 2021
It was dark and cold when the alarm went off at 6.30 am. Hot coffee helped us get going and by 7.15 am we were untying our lines from “Always Home” and on our way from Vero Beach. We had a great time there, catching up with Paul, Fran, Susan and Clark, but it was time for us to get moving. Our plan is to work our way up the Intra Coastal Waterway to St Augustine and meet up with our friends Lynn and Lee. As Gloria mentioned yesterday, if we get lucky we may also be able to get some Covid vaccine.
Todays journey was about 50 nautical miles and took us to the town of Cocoa. On our way south we took two days to complete this section, stopping overnight in Melbourne, but today we were keen to push one. I have been wearing shorts for the past several months, but this morning I put on my fleece pants on top. The wind was only 5-10 knots but from a north-west direction and it felt really chilly. We motored the whole way but at times we also had our genoa up to give us an extra boost. It was a quiet trip. We saw lots of dolphins and osprey but not too much else. The flat water in the ICW makes it easy to cook and we had bagels for breakfast and ratatouille for lunch. We pulled off the ICW just south of the Cocoa bridge and are now anchored in about 10 feet depth of water. It’s pretty calm apart from the wakes of passing power-boats.
Throughout the trip I kept looking at the sorry state of our stainless steel “brightwork”, which is very much in need of a good polishing. So once we dropped anchor we pulled out the Collinite stainless steel polish/wax. We only worked for about an hour and there is a tone more to do, but it felt satisfying to at least make a start. We are having savory rice, sausage and broccoli for dinner. Let’s hope it’s good or my reputation will be ruined!
Mike
28 21.164 N, 80 43.181 W
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