Florida

What I can’t figure out is how we can send a man to the moon (45 years ago unless you believe the conspiracy theorists!) but yet we can’t predict the weather! How the winds, which were to be 10-15 from the southwest in the morning could change so much in 24 hours!!! The latest info was no winds until night time. With that in mind and contrary to the last blog I decided to take the more southern route on the hope that the gulf stream would make up for the low winds. Anyways the winds were non existent for 10 hours so we had to motor to the stream (55 NM away). We were however able to sail over half way of the next 70 NM which was great, the moon was full and the sky was mostly clear. Between the banks and Florida is a fairly busy area and I think we saw (on AIS) 3 huge super tankers and a cruise ship which basically looks like a floating city. In fact they are so big at night that it throws off your perception of them.

Neither one of us sleeps well on a night crossing but is just one of the things you have to do and then suffer for it the next day. We were greeted to both an amazing sunset and sunrise! We made it in at 9:30, which was great for the tide and lack of current in the inlet. When you arrive you must call US customs (put up yellow quarantine flag) and not leave the boat until they tell you to report to them, which in this case is at the municipal airport. Ken Houldsworth drove us there and the check in procedure went well.

We are going to try to get hauled out on Tuesday, which is earlier than planned but we are here now and ready to start putting the boat away.