Day 19 Jan 5, 2017 Thursday

Vero Beach Municipal Marina   FL

We had a nice cool night and a sunny beautiful day.  We took the dinghy in to the dock and bus stop.  We did not know the bus schedule but thought we could pick one up in the office or there would be one posted in the boaters lounge.  Just as we walked from the dock we saw the bus leaving.  Never did get a schedule at the marina but got one from the bus driver later.  Our perfect timing meant we got to wait an hour for the next bus to the shopping center that had the West Marine and the Publix.  We finally got on the bus and rode into town.  We got some guide and chart books of the Keys and the Bahamas at West Marine and a few basics at Publix then went out to Two Jays for lunch.  They have a great menu and lots of food. We decided we could skip dinner if we ate lunch there.  I found a beauty shop that could take a walk in pronto so got my hair cut. 
We went to the bus stop and while we waited we chatted with some other sailboaters who were moored at the marina too.  They too are headed for the Keys and the Bahamas.We may run into them again.
We had a mess to clean up today.  We took out some charts we bought 2 yrs ago of the Exumas only to find they were ruined by something sticky.  The pages had stiffened and stuck together.  We started searching for the source of the problem and found it.  The cabinet under the sink in the head had  various cleaning items, laundry soap, clorox, water conditioner etc. Last yr one of the bottles of laundry soap got a hole in the bottom.  Lee thought he had plugged it up but apparently it did not stay plugged.  It had leaked all over the vanity cabinet and gone under the back wall of the vanity and leaked into the chart cabinet.  A $70 chart book ruined. We took everything out, cleaned up the mess, discarded extras of things and put stuff back together.  We had hoped if we soaked the chart book that it would soften the soap and the pages could be separated so we placed it in the shower and stopped up the drain holes and soaked it for an hour or 2 but it did not help.  Don't have a clue what else to try. 
We have the dinghy up and ready to take off at 8 in the morning when we can go by the office and pay our way out and get a little more water. We hope to make West Palm Beach by Sat afternoon.