We are at this great yacht club, its funny how things just work out sometimes. We decided to stay because yesterdays forecast called for numerous thunderstorms, plus at this yacht club it is stay 2 nights and the 3rd night is free. How could we go wrong! We even had a nice buffet dinner with all the members last night. They were some of the nicest people we have encountered throughout our travels.
Ft. Pierce was a good place to dock because everything we needed was a short walk away, but not the friendliest bunch. We said "hello" to this one fella that was walking by us, and his reply was a stony "yup". I feel that it actually takes more effort to be that grumpy! Anyways, these people are great!
We have been apprehensive to leave because we get so exhausted with the long days out at sea, even though it doesn't seem like 50-60miles is that long, it is when you have to deal with storms on top of it all. We have been traveling outside, and not through the ICW because in black tape at the helm it states that our mast height is 66ft 4in, and all the fixed bridges in the ICW are 65ft. We have been next to a lot of other boats and our mast does not appear to be that much higher than everyone else's. We decided to finally measure it, which meant climbing the mast again. We measured 60ft, and that was also accounting for 8in. of possible stretch to our line. We will do a second measure tomorrow to make double sure, but so far the plan is to head up the ICW, that way we can do shorter days, get in earlier to anchor and spend less money on docking.
For now we will just enjoy our free night of dock space , watch the dolphins, manatees, sea turtles, and obscenely huge cruise ships. We can even hear the music from these ships, which makes you feel like you are right there with them doing the "Macarena", and the "YMCA". "Ce-le-brate good times....come on"!
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