FREE at last!! Free at last!!

Finally underway again. Maybe I exaggerated a little about being "Free at last". Vero Beach is really very nice.

The old sailor axiom “Men and ships soon rot in port” is so true. Now Karen and I show no signs of rot but poor Temptation did this morning. When we motored on down the ICW my no current cruise speed was only 5.7 knots where it had been 6.2 kts. The knot log meter (paddle wheel) reported 0kts all day!! Must be caked in slime or barnacles or both. I kept hoping a big wake would wake it up but it didn’t. The wind speed did not work at first but after a good shaking by a passing boat it started to work. Our cruising speed eventually rose to 6.0 kts but still the slime – or is it “Velcro” – is slowing us down a bit.

We had a nice motor down the ICW today – did something like 40 + NMS. We are just 12 nm from North Lake Worth. I want to get in early and take my time to find a nice spot to anchor because we will probably be there awhile. The weather here will deteriorate tomorrow night and be stormy Wednesday and Thursday with wind over the weekend. But hey – a new location and food and stuff still convenient. That and we can stage for the Bahamas in just 4 hours from there.

When we passed through Vero Beach this morning we passed the canal that was the home for Temptation for so many years. The boat did not pull in that direction or just stop so we believe she must like her new home.

We are anchored here tonight in Hobe Sound, FL. The home of multimillion dollar homes – I mean like 10 million each. And we are just hanging out in their back yards – nanny nanny boo boo

Well I shouldn’t get too worked up or I’m sure they will have the jack booted FWC come visit us.

Ohhh anchoring here was interesting… We pulled into the first of 4 nice depressions along the ICW where you can anchor. Each can hold several boats. We had a view of all of them and no boat was here at 3pm. Well shortly after we had our hook down 2 other sailboats and a trawler came in and they anchored all around us… All this room but they had to be close to what was already here. What do they call that syndrome?? I know Mark Haskell knows it!! He reported it before too.