Days 193-197
We spent two nights at the Quality Inn in Stuart while Building Our Wings was hauled out at Stuart Yacht. The boat got new bottom paint and new zincs while we had the luxury of a couple of nights in a hotel! The job was done quickly and the boat was back in the water on Friday afternoon. The other two PDQs that we saw in Fort Myers were not as fortunate as we were. Rising Tide was at Stuart Yacht when we arrived instead of Abbotsford III as we expected. We found out that Abbotsford III had gotten a hanging lock lines caught in one of their propellers when exiting the Moore Haven lock. They were planning to have the boat hauled and stored for the summer after having some maintenance done at Stuart Yacht. Instead, they went directly to the storage facility and will deal with the entanglement problem when they relaunch the boat next fall. Rising Tide had a vibration that needed to be tracked down and then had an issue with water in their fuel, so were waiting for a fuel polisher to come and clean their fuel.
We spent Friday night on the boat and the first thing Saturday we headed off to Vero Beach. The passage was uneventful and we arrived at the Vero Beach City Marina on Saturday afternoon. We cleaned the boat and called it a day.
Sunday we went to Easter Mass at Holy Cross Catholic Church and then walked downtown to a beachfront restaurant for lunch. We walked back to the marina and then took the dogs for a run in the nearby dog park.
Monday morning we fueled up in Vero Beach and then headed out for what we expected to be a long 75-mile day to Titusville, FL. We made much better time than I expected in spite of running into and out of rain showers several times, and in spite of passing numerous other northbound boats. I think the snowbird migration has begun! We arrived at Titusville Municipal Marina in just 5 hours, logging our best average speed of the trip so far. That gave us time to take the dogs to the dog park next door, walk to a nearby grocery store for a few provisions and some Easter candy that the Easter Bunny forgot to deliver, take care of a couple of chores, and call it a day.
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