We left St. Augustine bright and early off the fuel dock. It had been cold, downright freezing actually, the day before , so we decided to pull anchor and stay overnight at the Municipal Marina because we were low on diesel and couldn’t run the heater. Coincidentally, we also ran out of fresh water. The trifecta, no heat, low on diesel, no water, pushed us into deciding to spend the $65 for the night on the dock.
We made the most of it by using the showers that night and setting off at first light. The winds had been howling the past couple of days really setting up whitecaps in the anchorage. That morning was the first morning the winds eased up, but it was still bitter cold.
I manned the helm while Hil supervised Emma below. I think I had on every piece of clothing I had on the boat, it was so cold! It was a long cold day. I stayed at the helm through draw bridge after draw bridge with Hil relieving me every couple of hours and a constant flow of hot coffee. We, of course, had one hickup with the fuel system, but got the boat up and running pretty quickly.
It the end we motored 12 hours to drop anchor about an hour after sunset on the north side of the first bridge to Daytona.
The next day we moved the boat south to a nice little anchorage off the channel and across from a marina that had a West Marine. I spent the day cleaning out the fuel system, again, and we rowed over for some parts in the afternoon and enjoyed a happy hour beer on the outdoor patio before rowing back to the boat in dead calm conditions.
Both night we had very calm conditions with the water looking like glass in the morning. The holding was great and we both slept worry free.
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