We’re up early prepping for departure. Things are calm, virtually no breeze until we’re ready to leave the dock. Then 15 knot winds and we need help. Chuck popped down to assist and got us away from the dock safely. That’s Hinckley service baby!! We go over to the Sailfish Marina dock for diesel, we …
Stuart, FL to St. Simon Island, GA
Tomorrow we will leave Stuart Florida for St Simon Island, Georgia. Morningstar Marina is to be our hurricane season home. As much as we wanted to be out and heading towards Grenada it is much too late in the season to safely start anew and so north we go. We have done our last minute …
Be Still My Heart
Throughout this whole engine ordeal I have been having heart palpitations. Not just my run of the mill skips and stutters, these are symptomatic with dizziness, shortness of breath, cold sweats and nausea. If it continues we’ll go into the ER. I take extra potassium to counteract the deficit from sweating and sometimes it helps, …
Waiting for parts
We have an osprey that visits our dock and often sits on top of our mast pooping nasty stuff on our decks. Otherwise there’s not much happening. Repairs underway as parts come in, still tied to the Hinckley dock, Chuck recommended an Ultra Safety Systems high water alarm to be tied to the bilge pumps. …
Hinckley to the rescue
0730 - Knock, knock Pablo’s here, and we’re still passed out, even though we had some dinner yesterday and hit the bed again about 2100, we are still out cold. The A/C is working, the boat is nice and cool and we have to wake up and get the repair show in the road. Pablo …
Back in Stuart FL
We finally got to the St Lucie Inlet at 2330 last night. We motored around offshore until morning and called Hinckley. Chuck Ruble, the service manager was a bit surprised to hear from us, but told us to come on in. Into the inlet we go, and bada bing, we’re stuck on a sandbar that …
The fix is in
The diesel spray was determined to come from the end cap on the diesel return line. The end cap had a pin hole in it. Steve started ”repairs” before sunrise. He pulled a Rube Goldberg, using an oil extractor tube, tie wrap, juice bottle, a stopper and blue painters tape (my idea, I do love …
A fix is in the works
After the big stink we got away from Walker’s Cay Reef and headed north. We got about even with, but a long ways from, West Palm Beach and no wind again, we took in the main and staysail to try and calm our movement as the seas are quite rolly. Nope, not working. Things are …
Still heading back
We are now at day 2-1/2 trying to get back to Florida. We are north of the western Abacos/Grand Bahama islands and chasing the wind again. We need to head south, but there is a reef (Walker’s Cay) that poses a grounding risk, so we head back north and finally winds such that we can …
Heading back
So, we sailed last night and saw a cruise ship, the Norwegian Gem a long ways off. That’s a first in ages! We have a glorious sunrise this morning, such a fine sight after a dark night. We are still 60 miles from March Harbor, at 4 kts that’s a long trip that will involve …
Harmony At Sea 