ICW heading South Vero Beach Municipal Marina
Well we had a warm night. No blanket, just a sheet was enough. We had a short day as we were making over 6 kts most all day and going to Vero Beach to grab a mooring ball. We arrived about 1 in the afternoon. I steered the boat up to the ball and Lee hooked us up. We were lucky to get one to ourselves since here you frequently have to raft up with another boat. It had looked all day like it would rain anytime but was mostly sunny when we arrived at Vero.
We put the dinghy down for the first time since we started. Getting the motor on was not a hard as I remembered. Could I be getting stronger? Once the motor was on the trouble began. Our outboard is a propane motor and we had two tanks we felt were nearly full but we could not get the outboard to run. Lee needed a drill to enlarge a hole and of course the battery for the drill was not charged. After changing hoses from tank to outboard and taking off the motor cover and generally tinkering it finally ran. It was quite a jaunt to the office and no one was into rowing that far.
While Lee went to take care of checking in I tidied up the cockpit. It started to rain a few slow drops which I thought was nothing so I did not close anything up. Then after 5 min of little drips and drops the sky opened up and rained really hard for 5 or 10 min then it was over and the sun was out again. Unfortunately Lee was in the dinghy coming back to the boat when the downpour started and he was soaked. I had stacked the chart book and the notebook he kept notes in on the companionway but not put them below. They also got soaked as well as the ipad and cell phone. It may be spring before his jeans dry out.
Hope that was our share of incidents for today. Tomorrow we plan a bus trip to town. The no see ums are bad so I do not think we will stay more than tomorrow night before we head on south.
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