Overnight was a little bouncy and swinging on the mooring ball but not too bad for how
windy it was. Skipper Bob talks about how the ICW often has better weather conditions
as you move on down from St. Augustine which is fairly exposed to the weather coming
off the Atlantic Ocean right there. It did improve some and we are anxious to head down
to Titusville where our good friends Doug and Pat Reichenbach will be picking us up
to spend some time at their place in Lake Wales.
After a long cold day on the water we pulled into Halifax Harbor Marina at Daytona Beach.
They say that if there is a race going on at the Raceway you can hear it from the marina but
there was no race today, only a very quiet town. We rode our bikes to the Old Town area
and over to the DDaytona Beach on the Atlantic and both areas seemed very dead. We're
not sure if it's the economy, the cold weather or maybe everyone stayed home to watch
Sunday football. The marina is nice and well run. We stayed next to a guy from Nova Scotia
who sails up there in the summer and down to the Bahamas in the winter by himself while
his wife stays home where the grandkids live. He was a nice interesting guy, about 65.
53 miles
Monday, Nov.19
Today we joined the mass migration southward as we traveled with more other sailboats
than we had seen traveling since back at Dismal Swamp Canal. Many insurance companies
require owners to remain north of Oriental, North Carolina until after Nov.1 due to the
normal hurricane season and after that date the boats travel with a little more urgency.
We plan on heading over to the Bahamas around the second week of December, leaving
from West Palm Beach, FL.
We saw lots of dolphins and white pelicans again today.
Our day today ended at Titusville Municipal Marina, a well-protected marina with a good
weekly rate where we plan to leave the boat for a week while we visit Doug and Pat.
"The Missing Link" belonging to Mike and Chris Link from Madison is in the marina
right next to us and we plan to visit them in Lake Wales, as they live a half mile from
where we will be staying.
We also met a Danish couple traveling to the Abacos the same time as us from the
same departure place in a boat identical to ours. We may go over together.
A single bascule bridge that lifted for us.
48 miles ( 2020 miles total )
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