After getting the root canal all closed up in Vero we started south on the ICW spending one night in Jensenville before heading to Stuart. We will leave tomorrow the February 18th for Fort Lauderdale hopefully arriving Saturday so we can attend the Miami Boat show with our friends Frank and Joanne on Sunday. Here is what we have been doing since Vero.
We decided to have an electric winch installed to handle the new main with in-boom reefing so we went up to Stuart home of Mack sails. It is located on the St. Lucie River part of the Lake Okochobee Waterway. It is about two hours off the ICW and has a wonderful marina where we took a mooring ball for the week we were going to be here. Although the install took until Monday the 13th our bigger problem was the dinghy motor which decided to not have any forward or reverse. Ed took it apart as far as he could then called a repair guy who worked on it, determined it could not be fixed and found a used one for us. It is now Thursday the 17th and we are ready to roll, finally.
While here, Ed figured out that our alternator regulator was bad and needs to be sent in for work. He bought a cheapie for $18 which works pretty well. Meanwhile, the wind generator is acting up and he will take that in for warranty work in Ft. Lauderdale (convenient). The marina here has free bicycles for our use so we have biked to stores and restaurants. There is a cute downtown within walking distance with trendy stores and good restaurants. We really like Stuart!
Meanwhile, our friends keep saying "where are you". Hopefully, we will start to make some progress and do some real sailing and spend some time snorkeling and swimming. Bye for now.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
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