ON the Move - December 17

Sunday we left Riverside at 8 am and tuned the corner to Harbourtown Marina for fuel and water. By 8:30 we were in the river heading south. At 12:45 we were anchoring [attempting to anchor ] in Manatee Pocket. Last year that took all day!!! New prop!!! We sat and enjoyed the calm, well...not really. There is a no-wake rule in here the Pocket and for the most part people obey it, but there was a constant parade of boats. The ICW was vicious and we are hoping that we can be out of it before the holiday weekend starts.
Todd spent some time playing with his boat but somewhere someone else had a remote with the same frequency and he almost lost it!! He can try it again on the islands.
After dinner we sat in the cockpit enjoying the Christmas lights all around us. We have lights to put up the mast but the batteries can't handle it and our wind generator needs a little TLC to get it moving again...very stiff right now...probably from a summer of being tied off and dust from the yard in the mechanism. Today we will have lunch with Bill and head to Peck Lake tonight. Tuesday we will be in Lake Worth and Wednesday...crossing !!!

He watched us leave the Riverside dock

Swabbing the decks and securing the diesel cans

Running the boat

Our morning wake-up whistler-and he's the little one

Finish painting the dinghy

it came back!!!