- 53.4 miles
- 6 hours
- 8.9 mph average speed
- 5-10 mph winds
It was so nice to be back on the water today after a week in the marina waiting for the props to be repaired. We saw so many dolphin frolicking in the water. I think the winds the day after we arrived in St. Augustine were the highest we’ve seen at 15-25 knots with gusts up to 35 knots so we were certainly glad to be tied up in the marina.
As we were traveling to St. Augustine and in the middle of a deep channel we felt a bump but nothing was visible in the water before or after. We decided it would be best to have a diver take a look and, sure enough, there was slight damage to one of the props so we had the props pulled for repair, again! Kevin decided to also purchase a new set of props so that we will have a spare set on board. Certainly once we have spares we won’t need them!
We had a lovely evening with Maggie and Bruce from Currently and Chris from Taylor’d for Two. We had a not so great dinner at a Mexican restaurant, walked around downtown St. Augustine, had a drink on the rooftop of Casa Reina restaurant and visited Ron on Flying Colors.
After having the props removed, we had missed the weekly pick up from the place in Bradenton where we were sending them for repairs so we rented a car to drive them over there and then drove home to Atlanta for a few days. That was a long 14 hour trip!
Once we were back in St. Augustine, we were happy to see that our friends Pam and Hank from Slainte had arrived at River’s Edge Marina. We had a delicious dinner with them at Sainte-George.
We rented another car to go pick up the new props – have we put more miles on cars than on the boat?! The diver installed the props and we were once again ready to resume our trip!