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Harmony's Maiden Voyage
Day 47
April 07, 2008
We left Vero Beach at sunrise and headed north; the wind was from the south and so we unfurled the genoa for the first time, hooray. Whilst technically only motorsailing, it felt pretty good and we made better progress with a little wind power to help us along. We anchored in the lee of one of the many huge bridges that cross the ICW, 38 miles north of Vero Beach. There Dickie donned his new wetsuit and jumped in to scrape Harmony’s bottom..
Another early start and 40 miles further north we anchored at Titusville, the closest spot on the ICW to the Cape Canaveral and the shuttle launch site. Unfortunately we missed the last launch by 3 weeks, next one not till May. At anchor there were a few big downpours and some thunder and lightning, but nothing as scary as was forecast.
The next day we decided to head for Seven Seas Marina, just south of Daytona Beach, another 43 miles. En route we came across a dredger in the middle of the channel at Ponce de Leon inlet; we skirted by but 200 yards beyond in the middle of the channel we touched bottom and stuck. After a few minutes, we discovered that if I ran forward and hung out over the bow (like in the titantic movie) Harmony could edge her way off the sand bar. The dredger must have missed a spot (or two as it happened). The same technique came in handy 500 yards further on as we found more skinny water (that is the technical term for shallow water) and got stuck again, but not for too long. Somewhat frazzled, but pleased that we didn’t have to call for another tow, we continued to the marina and stayed for a couple of nights rest. It is an exhausting business!
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Norm D. April 12, 2008 at 12:53 AM
Sounds like you are having a great time. We are doing the same on the other side of the globe in Aus.
Like reading of your adventures they seem pretty close to ours,
Norm and Dawn