After 5 weeks and approximately 2500 km, Crimson Kathryn has finally reached her new home for the fall. What an experience this has been, from the amazing things we’ve seen and people we’ve met, to the stinking hot, hot weather. We started calling this adventure a delivery trip because of the pace at which we were traveling (and the lack of relaxation we were experiencing). Delivery trips are not the most fun but they are extremely rewarding when you reach your destination.
I think in my last blog I mentioned the Knox Bridge not working. Well we ended up leaving St. Augustine on Wed. night at 10 pm and motoring on the ocean. That went really well once we got out of the St. Augustine inlet (one last green buoy tried to take us out but I saw it at the last minute and Mark reacted with cat-like reflexes to miss it.) It was fairly easy going after that. The ICW is pretty straight and rather dull after miles and miles of motoring (except for watching the crazy limited depths).
Right now we are tied up at the Harbortown Marina in Fort Pierce. We are being hauled out and stored at Riverside Marina but they can’t get to us until maybe Thursday this week and they didn’t have any empty slips at their dock so here we are. It’s very nice but a bit expensive. We have lots of work to do in the next few days to get the boat ready for storage. We are taking the masts off again (our insurance company prefers masts down) and the boat really needs major washing. All that salt makes for messy decks. If all goes well, we could be back in Toronto on Sunday, August 7.
The wifi here is not the greatest, so I’ll have to load my photos later. Stay tuned😀😀
Crimson Kathryn and her crew 