After a great night on anchor we were underway at 0800 bound for New Smyrna for night.

Windy again today but not as bad as yesterday...15 to 20 knots most of the day causing a light chop on the waterway. There were quite a few more boats moving north today.... both sail and power... which is nice to see.

No bridges to deal with today... we went under several but none that required an opening for us to pass.

We did see a sailboat run into a day mark... we were just overtaking him and he bounced right off the piling... made a very loud crunching sound... did not seem to bother the owner much... he did walk up and look down at the side that hit the piling but quickly returned to the cockpit as we passed him... he never looked at us... think he might of been embarrassed that we saw him hit...:)

We arrived to our destination for the night in New Smyrna at approximately 1630 and docked at the city floating docks...N29°01.532’, W080°55.152’. We traveled today for 8.5 hours covering 58.7 nautical miles averaging 6.9 knots.

After docking we were joined by Charlotte and Peter Behr who live in New Smyrna. We had a couple of cocktails aboard SAILS and then went out to dinner at Cork Screw Bar and Grille. We had a great evening catching up with Peter and Charlotte. They are very dear friends and we try to stop and see them every as we travel north and south.