Well someone has said that time passes slowly when waiting for something to happen. I am still working on walking as much as possible to help shake my back problem. Kevin gave me a Skipper Bob book on the intracoastal with all sorts of help and advice for where to anchor and where they have free docks, etc. He has traveled the area I am going to be going to and has contributed to the books. The man who originally started the book died this past December and now it will be up to a group of people to maintain his work. It will be difficult as he really did it with lots of detail. I have some more reading in it tomorrow and will start to mark on my charts where some of these things are so I don’t miss out on things. A lot of his advice involves using a dinghy to get to them. Since I don’t have a dinghy I can use a lot of his marina and anchorage advice to save a little money.
It is 7:15 PM and totally dark outside except for a very small crescent moon just about to go below the horizon. The weather today was a very gusty northwest wind, which I timed once at 35 MPH and that kept us pinned against the docks all day long and not just rocking in motion but getting little jolts. And the wind chill ranks right up there with my experiences in Texas. The sunshine felt good if you could find a place out of the wind.
The guys working on the boat next door gave up and drove to Miami to the boat show for the day and if my back had felt better I would have gone with them. Last night about this time a big trawler pulled in for the night. It was a Marine Trader 44 foot and he just missed my bow coming in and then when he got alongside he proceeded to back up into my boat. The anchor hit his dinghy and he stretched my lines so hard that when I told him to move it forward about four feet the line just went zing and the boat sprang forward enough to hit him again but then settled back where it was about 3 feet from him. You can imagine that whenever I slightly woke up last night I would check where he was because of the howling wind and then this morning we got showers to go with it until it cleared off at noon. And then he ran an ordinary electric cord out the boat door for his space heater and oops, there went everyone’s electricity for the night if they used it for heat. That is where my diesel heater comes into its own and does not need the electricity at 110 just uses 12v off of the batteries as long as you have them charged.
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