12/28/09 From Daytona to titusville

Monday, December 28, 2009

8:00 am From Daytona (mile 829) to Titusville (mile 878) 4:00pm

From the land of Daytona where they let cars tear apart the beaches (but not dogs) to Titusville the beginning of the space coast. It was a pleasant day of “find the buoys with the sun in your eyes” all day. No problems really, except once when I couldn’t figure out the color of a buoy and ended up out of the channel surrounded by 5.5 feet of water.

Luckily, Lady Good Wind had been following us for a good part of the day and after going through the cut, Haul Out Canal (which was crowded with little fishing boats in a very narrow channel), and past the lift bridge after I’d lost sight of the markers – he let me follow him. Whew. It’s hard on the eyes looking into the sun all day. It was nice to follow his boat and let him search out the markers LOL. The closer we got to Titusville the higher the winds got. We had seawater spraying up over the boat and coating the dodger window in white.

We both entered the anchorage in front of Titusville Marina about 4pm. We anchored next to Green #1 right outside the channel and they anchored behind us. The winds are supposed to increase tonight gusting to 30 and the temp is supposed to drop to 30. It’s a 30/30-day. Wendell called to let us know that they won’t be meeting us in Vero Beach for New Years. I guess Di has to work. Maybe next time. We were talking about cutting through to the west coast next year if the Okeechobee and its rivers are deep enough. Then on to Guatemala and further South West. We’ll see. Sad news that we can’t visit, but good to hear my bro’s voice :)

I made a rendition of beef stroganoff but over mashed potatoes for dinner. I think I added to much Worcestershire sauce – Wayne said the onions were to hot. Nice hearty meal for a cold night though.