Started pulling anchor at 0730… underway at 0745 and back out to ICW heading north to Cocoa area.

Very windy today with D winds over 20 knots all day which pushed up quite a chop... waves 2 to 3 feet on the stern all day. We also had a push from current or wind that kept us moving at over 7 knots all day. With the extra we decided to cruise a little longer and changed our destination from Cocoa to Titusville where we hoped to pick up a mooring ball.

We called Titusville Marina to reserve a mooring ball. We were told they are first come first serve and unable to reserve one… but that there were several balls currently available… this was around 1400 that we called… still had 4 hours to go so hopefully there would be a ball available when we got there…. Otherwise plan B was to anchor and it’s supposed to blow at night 20- 25 knots… I would have been awake all night worrying about dragging anchor…

We arrived to the Titusville Mooring field and there were 3 balls open… YAY! We took the one furthest to the north end of the mooring field… was blowing 20-25 knots and that made picking up the mooring interesting… lost the boat hook on first attempt and had to swing around and pick it up… attempt 2 was successful picking up the mooring ball.

We were secure for the night at Titusville, FL at approximately 1800. Our position for the night is N28°37.612', W080°48.419'. We traveled today for 10.25 hours covering 75.9 nautical miles averaging 7.4 knots.