Still Plugging Along

Sunday April 5, 2015
Cocoa, FL

Still Plugging Along

We left Vero Beach at 7:45 and started North again. We got winds of 20 kts around noon and were able to put out a sail.  Several sail boats had sails out. The waterway here is quite wide so you can sail if you have the wind.  We stopped at Cocoa and anchored around 4:30 expecting a front to move through and bring 25-30 kts of wind tonight.  We plan to try to get 50 miles knocked off per day while in the waterway and still hope later in the week to get off shore.

We talked to both our sons for the first time since Christmas.  Seems the younger one wrecked his mountain bicycle and tore up his shoulder in Jan.  It required surgery to repair.  He is still in rehab.  He would not elaborate much more than that.  He did the other shoulder in a mt bike accident 10 or 12 yrs ago.  Wish he would take up chess or something less dangerous.I am irritated he didn't tell me when it happened but I guess I could do nothing but worry about him. He says the healing seems to be going well so I will hope he is as good as new before long. Having watched my friend Terri go through shoulder surgery and rehab I know what an ordeal it can be.

We calculate if nothing goes amiss we will be home a day or two before closing even if we never make it off shore, but we hope we do.  Tomorrows goal is New Smyrna, with a stop for diesel and water along the way.