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These are all the Blogs posted on Thursday, 12 April, 2012.
Stuart, FL to Rock Point
Florida to Rhode Island - Day 5
Before I post about today’s trip... I have to post a funny thing that happened last night... we were sitting in the salon watching a little TV before we went to bed.. it was about 2130 hours when I noticed some flashes of light coming through the galley door window. I got up and looked out the window and saw 2-3 people with a camera and looked like they were taking photos of the boat. Then I noticed the angle of their camera… it was pointing up at an unusually high angle and they were really close to the boat... they snapped a shot and then they motioned with their hand as if talking to someone on our boat... Then I heard noises from the pilothouse deck above me... I went to the pilothouse and looked out... sure enough 3 kids on the deck posing for a snapshot… I whipped open the pilothouse door… it wacked one of them in back… boy were they surprised… I yelled at them… “What do you think you are doing??? This is a private vessel and your trespassing… get off now! “ They were all shocked and starting telling me… sorry… we’re so sorry… over and over… they exited quickly from the boat and also quickly up the docks away.... We always get a lot of people walking the docks stopping and looking at SAILS, asking questions, taking photos… but this was the first time we ever had someone just jump right onboard for a photo shoot…. LOL

Anyway, after a good nights sleep we departed from Stuart at 0700 hours... getting a later start than planned but we were doing a shorter day. Destination being an anchorage behind a small island at ICW statue mile 925... Rock Point is how it is referred to in Skipper Bob's Cruising Guide… approximate location N27°59.340’, W080°32.776’.

Getting back to the ICW was nice… but the currents are always a pain to deal with… you either get a boost or fight against it… today we had a boost coming out of the St. Lucie River… but once we hit the ICW and turned north… current on our nose… but it was back and forth all day… I’d say overall we had equal effects.

Tons of boat traffic today… so many that I gave up keeping track of them… and like always we had a lot of non courteous boaters… waking us as they passed… one in particular was getting a lot of attention from the other boats… not trying to use a stereotype.. but it was a “SeaRay” from Naples, FL… won’t mention the name but he was called a lot of names today over the VHF… can’t mention those names either… LOL

It was rather windy today blowing 18 to 20 knots with gusts to 25 knots… but being on the ICW there was nothing more than a moderate chop and cruising was not a problem.

Today we will have some friends joining us in the anchorage… Chuck and Arlene Custer aboard their boat TURTLE TROT… we were suppose to rendezvous in Fort Myers but they had some issues with the head on their boat and needed to get it corrected before continuing… luckily it was a quick fix and were back underway quickly… anyway, they will be anchoring with us tonight and then traveling with us to Fernandina Beach for the MTOA Southern Rendezvous.

Today we traveled for 9 hours and 15 minutes covering 60.4 nautical miles averaging 6.53 knots.
Posted at 5:04 PM by:Jay
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