Jensen Beach FL

Day 65 & 66
March 5 & 6, 2016
Sat and Sunday
at anchor Jensen Beach, FL

Day 65     3/5/16   Sat
We were up in the wee hours of the morning and headed north from West Palm Beach by 7. We were not sure where we would end the day but had a few options for anchoring.  The waterway on a weekend is crazy. We were tossed like a cork by passing power boats and the wind too.  It was a tiring and bouncy day. At 3:30 after rejecting 2 anchorages we finally settled on one at Jensen Beach. We went aground, barely, while hunting the perfect place to drop anchor.  Then another boat came in and anchored uncomfortably close to us. We are watching it. After last night we do not want to play bumper boats again. 

Oh, I wrote yesterdays log before the middle of the night fiasco. We anchored last night and when wind or tide shifted we came way too close to a boat I had said could be a problem if things shifted at the time we anchored. But Lee did not listen. After dark we did get too close and pulled anchor and moved.  We anchored among power and sail boats at reasonable distances and went back to bed.  Lee yells in the middle of the night, get up!! (2am) and we are against the side of one of the big power boats.  He tells me to pull anchor and I do and he starts backing up.  Our anchor is under the other boat so apparently their anchor drug and they came over to us.  In the process of getting away from them, Lee backed up into 2 large power boats that were rafted together.  Somehow our dinghy or something on our stern was tangled in a rope on their boat. He was out fending off our bow sprit from their side and I was trying to steer us forward and away from the boats. Finally the rope broke loose.  How all 3 boat loads of people slept through all this I do not understand but we never heard or saw anyone. We then moved way away from most other boats and dropped anchor again. By this time we were both so hopped up on adrenaline that nobody was sleeping. Lee stayed in the cockpit on anchor watch until 4 and I gave up trying to sleep and came and joined him. Although I wanted to go to the Manatee Discovery place we had both had it with the non-anchorage anchorage.  Thus the early morning departure Sat. 


Day 66   3/6/16 
Anchored at Jensen Beach temps low 70s bright and sunny but wind in high teens to 20 all day. We decided to stay put and relax and avoid the weekend madness. Tomorrow Mitch is going to check with the marina insight and see if they can check out his dinghy motor. With no dinghy you are trapped on your boat.  There are some good things around here if we went to shore I think. Whether we stay or go tomorrow depends on what Mitch does, either way it looks like we are in for a week of winds in the high teens and 20s. But at least it looks like sun so temps in the day will be 70s. Not much interesting to report today, but after Fri night/Sat morning I am good with dull.