Monday, Feb 17 Titusville to Pine Island, north of Vero Beach

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Feb 17 is a big day! Rosie’s brother Rey’s birthday and our 3rd year anniversary with Summer Breeze and most importantly our kid’s childhood dog’s birthday! Booger is forever celebrated on Presidents Day.  This photo of the Rey and Rosie is several years old! 

We left the mooring field at 7:10 AM with a beautiful morning (no wind or rain!) and sunrise. 

A painting I did yesterday while at anchor. Another from the Toogoodoo 365 Series

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A dolphin swam besides us for several minutes. 

We (Rosie) watched the rocket launch! We waited and looked and then suddenly we had an emergency sound go off so Bruce runs down to the ER. 

If you zoom or look into the upper right area, you can see the rocket.

Our Port engine over heated! 

That’s why Bruce missed the rocket launch!

           

After checking sea strainers and impellers, there was no explanation. He looked at the sea chest and noticed what he thought was an object. We had shut the engine off and we were running slowly on one engine and thankfully there was no wind, no current and we were in a wide channel. So after a bit, we restarted the engine and the temperature ran up again. Stopped again and rechecked. Started again and the engine ran fine for the rest of the trip just fine! We have about 20 miles tomorrow to Ft Pierce where we can hire a diver to check the sea chest. 🛳🤷🏼‍♀️

We got to our destination anchorage at Wasabbo bridge and there was a sailboat right in our perfect spot but we have been there before with another boat and it was fine. We could not anchor there as we tried 3 times and it was too shallow in 2 spots and the 3rd was ok but it put us too close to the other boat. So, we bailed. We had another possible anchorage 2 1/2 miles to Pine Island and we decided to try it. We feared it was too shallow for us before but we got behind it and anchored with 3’ below our keel which was good enough. We did get to 1.2’ in our spot search. A sailboat came in after us and went the other direction and ran aground.

We anchored by 4:45 and we love this spot! EXCEPT for the bugs. 

We managed to fill our main cabin with biting gnats and big skeeters.

Tomorrow we have a short trip to Ft Pierce marina and we stage for the perfect tide to enter!

Another great sunset.

9 hours,10 min 

Miles 64