We spent the last week in Fort Pierce attending the MTOA Southern Rendezvous at the Fort Pierce City Marina. We had a great time and got see some old friends and make some new ones.

Susan wanted to go to the Farmer's Market that they have on Saturday here next to the marina so we got away later than I would of liked departing at 1000.

The marina has some wicked current flowing through and a few of the boats leav9ing have had some trouble getting out of their slips and down the fairways. We had one boat actually pin itself against the end of a t-dock and had to wait till slack tide to get off.

So, when we left this morning the current was ripping and the wind was also blowing around 20 knots same direction as the current. As we sat there engines running preparing to leave several people offered their opinions that it was not a good time to try and leave... we should wait for slack tide. I really did not see an issue but we had a crowd watching us we left the dock... and as I thought we had no issues... spun SAILS around 180 degrees and we were off down the fairway... in the areas where we had ac ross current we were crabbing down the channel at 20-30 degrees to keep us goi9ng straight.... NO ISSUES! :)

It was rather windy as I mentioned and we saw 20- 25 knots winds most of the day... had current against us and with us. The only issue we had all day was a sailboat nearly hit us head on.... NO ONE AT THE HELM... he was headed south passing us to port as we were headed north... just a 100 feet in front of us the sailboat veered into our path... gust of wind I guess... I blasted the horns and swung hard to starboard and we passed with about a foot of each other... I looked back as he popped up out of his cabin... not sure he even knew what had taken place... :(

We arrived to our destination for the night just north of Eau Gallie and anchored in the Indian River at N28°08.836’, W080°36.556’. We traveled today for 7.0 hours covering 46.04 nautical miles averaging 6.6 knots.