Getting Ready to Leave

We’re nearing the end of our month stay at Loggerhead marina and we still have no wifi! Finding new places to connect our devices has been interesting. We’ve surfed the net at Starbucks, Panera Bread and today (Jan. 6th) we tried at the Vero Beach City marina but their wifi was down (it seems to be contagious). So here we are in the public library making the most of their wifi.

We’ve had a busy few days getting the small must be completed jobs done before we leave. Mark added some sheet insulation on the wall of the engine room that our fridge and freezer back onto. Hopefully this will help keep some of the engine room heat away from fridge/freezer. I got all our laundry done and then Mark went up the mizzen mast to untie the wind generator.

We have also been taking it easy and enjoying ourselves. On Jan. 3 we took the dinghy over to the City marina and did a dinghy drift with Julia and Brad plus about 6 other dinghies. The point of the drift (dinghies are tied together and just float along with the current) was to watch a Space X launch. This launch was quite spectacular and probably the best we’ve seen. We saw the rocket glow first, then the rocket appeared. We saw the separation of the rocket’s booster engine and it looked like we could see satellites being launched! It was super cool.

On Thursday Jan. 4 we met up with Julia / Brad and Sharon / Rick and we went out to dinner to a seafood restaurant. It was a busy restaurant but the service was very good. It was a nice evening out – good food and as usual good company.

On Sunday we’ll finish our provisioning by going to Costco and Aldi – this is mainly for our perishable items. We’ve rented a car for Monday so we can take our car back north to Reynolds where it will rest for the sailing season. Our departure date was going to be Jan. 9 but the weather is looking bad for that day so we might stay at Loggerheads for one extra day and leave on Jan. 10. So far a good crossing to the Bahamas is shaping up for Jan. 13. We’ll keep an eye on that date.