Thursday 1-8-09
We spent two peaceful nights at Harbortown where we set up arrangements for a slip and rental car at New Smyrna Beach as well as a hotel reservation at the place the kids will be in Marathon. We got away early and proceeded north in nice sunny weather expecting to reach NSB by mid afternoon. It was another pretty day, the frontal passage scrubbed the atmosphere to crystal clear and there was a light wind out of the NW. There were very few other boats that we passed but one of them happened to be a couple we know from Spring Grove, Dan and Martha Bliss who are almost neighbors. They were taking their sailboat to the Keys. Tuesday, on the way to Harbortown Marina, a trawler passed us going south and after it was by, I got a call on the radio from Merin, the captain saw our hail port and told me they were from York and left their boat at Harbortown while they went home for Christmas. They had just returned and gotten underway that morning heading to a rendezvous at Stuart. Small world.
By 1:45 we were in our slip at New Smyrna Beach City Marina – the same slip we were in a week or so before.
We spent two peaceful nights at Harbortown where we set up arrangements for a slip and rental car at New Smyrna Beach as well as a hotel reservation at the place the kids will be in Marathon. We got away early and proceeded north in nice sunny weather expecting to reach NSB by mid afternoon. It was another pretty day, the frontal passage scrubbed the atmosphere to crystal clear and there was a light wind out of the NW. There were very few other boats that we passed but one of them happened to be a couple we know from Spring Grove, Dan and Martha Bliss who are almost neighbors. They were taking their sailboat to the Keys. Tuesday, on the way to Harbortown Marina, a trawler passed us going south and after it was by, I got a call on the radio from Merin, the captain saw our hail port and told me they were from York and left their boat at Harbortown while they went home for Christmas. They had just returned and gotten underway that morning heading to a rendezvous at Stuart. Small world.
By 1:45 we were in our slip at New Smyrna Beach City Marina – the same slip we were in a week or so before.
It was a slow day - so... more gull pictures
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