This delivery has gotten off to a bit of a difficult start. Rain, rain, rain and more rain. It rained so hard last night it woke me out of a dead sleep about 3 times. This morning at 7:30am it was just pouring down buckets of rain.
We finally waited as long as we could, but decided if this boat was going to make New York during 2013 we need to start moving north. So at about 8:45 we untied the lines is driving rain and started making our way on the ICW. By about 10:00 it finally let up enough that we could run faster than 7kts.
By about noon time we finally cleared the St Lucie Inlet at Stuart and got out of the never ending "No Wake and Manatee Zones" and were able to run up on plane. The boat ran great and we made pretty good time cruising about 15kts/17mph with her single Yanmar diesel.
We originally thought about stopping at Cocoa Beach, but got in there early around 5:30, so we continued another 20 miles up to Titusville. We arrived at 6:45pm were able to top off with some diesel fuel. We covered 140 miles today in 10 hours.
It continued to rain off and on all day, but the sun finally came out in the last 2 hours of the trip. We are hopeful that the worst of the weather is behind us and we get some nice weather to run up to St Augustine tomorrow.
Sorry, again no pictures today. We couldn't see much past the bow rail to take a picture today anyway.
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