March 04, 2007

We Danleft Palm Coast today!!  We said a sad goodbye the day before to Dottie, Rich and Aubrey.  We are really glad we had the opportunity to meet them and they will be a model for us in the future as we learn to travel lighter and enjoy life more.

Don stopped by and took some pictures of us on our boat.  We were bundled up. It will be interesting to see these in about 6 months and see how much we changed.  We had a cold but uneventful trip down the intercoastal and anchored out that night.  The anchorage was tight, between an island and behind some condominiums.  We were up the whole night worrying about the anchor dragging but it held.

Day 1 ICW

Left Palm Coast Marina 10:15am (Early start ??)   Anchored at Sheepshead Cut, New Smyrna at 4:45 pm.

Ran aground in .06 feet of water.  Went from 3 feet to .06 in seconds. Used engines to back off.  

Estimated use 4 gal diesel per engine

Total Motoring time: 6.5 hours

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March 2, 2007

We are close to moving on.  Just a few last minute details.  Dottie and Ritchie have been a great help to us.  They recently sold their boat and are moving to a motor home they will live in until they head back up to Maine for the summer. It took them only about 3 hours to move everything off their boat. We are in awe of them. It would take us more time than that to set fire to everything on our boat. They left their car at the marina for us to use in case we needed it, which of course we did.  They also took Tristan and Tessa with them to their daughter Aubrey’s bookstore in Flagler Beach.  That gave Dan and I some time to ourselves to finish last minute things and head to Mezzaluna’s for pizza.  Don, on Overindulgence, also offered to help us out if we needed to run some errands.  As anxious as we are to leave here to head to the Bahamas, we will miss this community here.