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| royalld | profile | all galleries >> Sailing Vessel Shibumi >> Shibumi's 2009 Cruise >> First Thirty Days >> Day Five | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
| It was cold when we left the anchorage near Cocoa Village. The temperature onboard ship was 44F. The outside air temperature read 33F.
Shibumi joined the Intra-Coastal Waterway southbound. After breakfast, of oatmeal and coffee, I raised the headsail. We passed Melbourne Florida about 2 1/2 hours after departing Cocoa. In Melbourne there used to be a marina that was wiped out by Hurricane Francis. During our first trip south aboard Shibumi we had quite the learning experience at that marina. The wind was blowing from the north. The kid on the marina radio assigned us an easterly faciing slip that was immediately adjacent to the westerly facing marina enterance, meaning I would have to make a very hard turn to reverse course while missing boats tied to the fuel dock at the end of the entrance. Have I lossed you so far? Anyway, we wound upgetting blown all over the marina before I gave up and asked for another slip. The marina gladly obliqued an assigned us a must easier slip to approach, but not before we put on a grand show for all of the patrons in the fancy restaurant that overlooked the marina. The only casuality, other than my ego, was a cracked navigation light lens that I tapped against a pylon during the fiasco. I bought and installed a new light the next day. While heading south it turned chilly onboard when the warm sun ducked behind our headsail. But the headsail was adding good speed to that we were getting from the engine. So the benefits of usig the sail outwieghed the drawback of the shade it created. We had a great motor-sail to Vero Beach. We arrived a little more than 7 hours after we pulled anchor. At Vero we tied to a mooring ball not far from friend s of ours aboard the sailing vessels Caribbean Call and Guaneka. For dinner we had pork chops, peas, and apple sauce. It was cold overnight, so we when to bed early and snuggled in our two-person sleeping bag. We plan to stay in Vero Beach for a few days. |
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