Back in Windmill Harbour

Cool_Breeze — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:47:00 +0100

I will try once again to post our final blog for Cool Breeze Sails South. In spite of working on it last night and trying to upload pho...

Isle of Hope Marina, south of Savannah

Cool_Breeze — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:35:00 +0100

It’s a little weird knowing that this will be my last post from the road (or should I say waterway), but we are so looking fo...

Walburg Creek

Cool_Breeze — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:33:00 +0100

We woke early (only thanks to the alarm), had our breakfast of tasty muffins delivered by the marina (a wonderful perk for staying here...

St. Simons Island

Cool_Breeze — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:30:00 +0100

This morning, after looking at the NOAA weather site, weather underground, ...

Fernandina

Cool_Breeze — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:26:00 +0100

We’ve been here in Fernandina for two days. We left Jacksonville in the sunshi...

Jacksonville

Cool_Breeze — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:25:00 +0100

We’re on the move again and are safely docked in Palm Cove Marina in Jacksonville. We spen...

St. Augustine

Cool_Breeze — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:11:00 +0100

We are in lovely St. Augustine at the Municipal Marina and at present are rocking and rolling with a strong south wind on o...

Palm Coast Marina

Cool_Breeze — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:49:00 +0100

Finally, a day that was really good. We left Halifax Harbor around 10:00 with very little wind and t...

Daytona Beach, FL

Cool_Breeze — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:54:00 +0100

Ditto from yesterday except today was about 2 hours longer. We left Titusville around 9:...

Back in Titusville

Cool_Breeze — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:39:00 +0100

Another cold day on the water with temperatures in the 50’s and wind in the 20’s.

Back at Dragon Point

Cool_Breeze — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:43:00 +0100

Our last evening in Vero Beach was a fun one. We met three other cruising couples at the...

Just hanging out in Vero Beach

Cool_Breeze — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:08:00 +0100

Yes, we are still in Vero Beach, and looks as though we’ll be here until Friday. We&rs...

Vero Beach

Cool_Breeze — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:05:00 +0100

We took a layover day in North Palm Beach because of the high winds. We hiked to the res...

North Palm Beach

Cool_Breeze — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:30:00 +0100

We had a good stay in Ft. Lauderdale. We caught the bus to a shopping center that had a ...

At Los Olas Marina

Cool_Breeze — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:10:00 +0100

Our night a Pumpkin Key was a night of shifting winds. Although we were the first boat in to anchor,...

Pumpkin Key

Cool_Breeze — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:16:00 +0100

We’re back a Pumpkin Key, anchored once again on the south side of the island behind that lovely sandy beach.<...

Pumpkin Key and Key Largo

Cool_Breeze — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:55:00 +0100

We’ve made it into the Keys and are currently at John Pennekamp State Park in Key Largo. <...

Still in the Grove

Cool_Breeze — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0100

We’re still hanging out in Coconut Grove. The weather on Wednesday was sunny a...

Coconut Grove

Cool_Breeze — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:23:00 +0100

We really do enjoy Coconut Grove and Dinner Key. We’ve had several days of lai...

Dinner Key

Cool_Breeze — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:10:00 +0100

Greetings from Dinner Key, Florida. We arrived here from Ft. Lauderdale this afternoon and are once ...

Ft. Lauderdale, Part 2

Cool_Breeze — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:40:00 +0100

Rain, rain, go away! This isn’t just rain, it is a veritable drenching downpour, which has...

Ft. Lauderdale

Cool_Breeze — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:27:00 +0100

We left Delray Beach around 9:20, timing our exit so that we could make the first of 15 bridges (sorry, incorrect in my last blog of 19...

In Delray Beach

Cool_Breeze — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:42:00 +0100

We had a really nice visit in Palm Beach in spite of the weather and the cost of the marina which charged us at a 45 ft. rate minimum. Th...

In Palm Beach

Cool_Breeze — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:27:00 +0100

We left Stuart mid-morning as we were only headed down to Manatee Pocket at the St. Lucie inlet for an anchorage overnight. We passed thr...

Sunset Bay Marina, Stuart, FL

Cool_Breeze — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:30:00 +0100

We are currently in Stuart, FL, which is about 8 miles up the St. Lucie River from the ICW.&nbs...

Enjoying Vero Beach

Cool_Breeze — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:00:00 +0100

Cool Breeze is still safely tied to the dock at Vero Beach, and we have enjoyed our time spent here in the much improved weather. We have...

Vero Beach for awhile

Cool_Breeze — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:00:00 +0100

This is our 3rd night here at Vero Beach and we can understand why it’s often called Velcro Beach because when you get here you tend to w...

Vero Beach

Cool_Breeze — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:30:00 +0100

Finally we’re in Vero Beach with the temperatures moderating. Life is Good! We had another pretty easy day which was ...

At Dragon Point

Cool_Breeze — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:18:00 +0100

We left Daytona on Tuesday and spent most of the day in Mosquito Lagoon which is a long, long passage (about 15 miles) where we were able to use th...

Daytona

Cool_Breeze — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:42:00 +0100

We’re a little bit south of Daytona tonight. We left Palm Coast fairly early and headed down the “ditch” wh...

Palm Coast Marina

Cool_Breeze — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:00:00 +0100

Another cold day on the water makes us wonder where our brains were when we decided to keep on keeping on in this weather. We had no clue...

St. Augustine, FL

Cool_Breeze — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:05:00 +0100

We stayed an extra day in Jacksonville because of the cold and rain throughout the day. When the rain finally let up, we walked the sever...

Jacksonville

Cool_Breeze — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:32:00 +0100

We had a pretty quick trip down to Jacksonville, with calm in the morning, wihich made traveling in the cold much more tolerable. The win...

Fernandina

Cool_Breeze — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:18:00 +0100

We are safely docked at the Fernandina Harbor Marina after a very interesting day. We left St. Simons a little before 10:00 with a rising...

Still in St. Simons

Cool_Breeze — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:21:00 +0100

We’ve stayed in St. Simons another day due to the wind factor and trying to cross St. Andrew’s Sound with incoming tide and win...

In St. Simons

Cool_Breeze — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:01:00 +0100

What can I say. All those who have said it is too cold to go South have been correct. We left Isle of Hope and had a fairly ben...

Isle of Hope

Cool_Breeze — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:57:00 +0100

After weeks of loading everything but the kitchen sink onto Cool Breeze, we left Windmill Harbour around 11:00. Almost everyone we bid fa...

The Day Before

Cool_Breeze — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:32:00 +0100

We have been in frenzied preparation mode since we returned from Christmas with our children, and we’re now getting down to crunch time.&...