4-FEB-2021 Thursday – Middle of Indian River near IR37, Vero Beach, FL to Port Canaveral Yacht Club, Port Canaveral, FL (43.3 nautical miles 49.8 statute miles)
28°24’28.8″N 80°37’44.5″W 28.407989, -80.629022 Elevation: Sea Level States (1): Florida
Florida sunshine and warm weather has returned. Skinny, near naked ladies will be on the beaches today.
Along the Way
Country living (with 1.5 million people living on the other side the channel)
White and great pelicans fishing (read signage on boat)
Solar power
Bow runner
Thank you for your service
Welcome to Cocoa. We are almost to Cape Canaveral!
Florida State Road A1A Merritt Island bridge
We turned starboard just after Florida State Road A1A Merritt Island bridge into the Canaveral Barge Canal. The Canaveral Barge Canal run between the Indian River on the west, through Merritt Island to the Banana River on the east.
heading east in the Canaveral Barge Canal
derelict boat life
nice job tying out
the dinghy needs to be emptied
we had to squeeze through past the crane
salvage and recycle company
Banana River and Port Canaveral
NASA to the north
Port Canaveral Lock – Prevents the flow of tide into the Banana River
pelicans looking for a lift
Disney cruise ship
Port Canaveral Yacht Club dock
We are staying at Port Canaveral Yacht Club until March 8. It’s 2 miles, 10 minute bike ride, from Plan B (our condo in Cape Canaveral).
Floccinaucinihilipilification
There are three Disney cruise ships anchored just 3 miles outside Port Canaveral in the Atlantic. It costs $17,000 per day to have a ship at dock in the port. Disney brings the ships into port about one day a week to change crew and replenish supplies.
Drolleries and Yuks
What do you call a paper airplane that doesn’t fly? ~Stationary
Do you think I have Obsessive Comparative Disorder??????
3-FEB-2021 Wednesday – Lake Worth Lagoon, South end of West Palm Beach, FL to Middle of Indian River near island IR37, Vero Beach, FL (63.5 nautical miles 73.1 statute miles)
27°36’15.6″N 80°21’29.2″W 27.604328, -80.358102 Elevation: Sea Level States (1): Florida
Argh! Another cold day. Day 3 of it. 47 degrees. Isinglass is still down in the upper helm and I’m still wearing socks. Today, I even put shoes on over my socks.
Small boat wind and wave advisories are still in effect.
Along the Way
Condo mania and bridge construction in southern end of West Palm Beach
Mar-a-Lago
“The Donald’s” big flag
Wonder how much $$$$ is in the fund for this hedge. Impressed.
Palms in downtown West Palm Beach
Lift em up
Impressed
Unimpressed. Ft Lauderdale marinas were better.
Condo with a slip included. Impressed.
Palm Beach Biltmore Condo, Palm Beach FL.
157ft, 6 staterooms/sleeps 12, crews up to 10. Unimpressed
Rybovich SyperYacht Marina. Update electric amperage, water and golf carts to get around.
Matching dingy. Impressed.
302ft, 12 guests in 7 rooms, crews up to 31.Charter $1,500,000 p/week + expenses. Impressed
Still Lake Worth, a bit further north in Riviera Beach.
Anchored out live aboard. Unimpressed
Anchored out live aboard. Impressed
Another anchored out live aboard
US Customs boat had been practicing with the Coasties. Impressed.
Coasties. Impressed
Riviera Beach water alleys
WOW! An owner in the yard. Impressed. Usually it’s the gardener. Impressed.
ALWAYS traffic at a bridge.
Ho hum. Local housing. Unimpressed.
The further from an inlet the more modest the home and less craziness
state law enforcement
out with the old. in with the new. Unimpressed.
Do you think I have Obsessive Comparative Disorder??????
Obsessive Comparative Disorder view
Impressed.
grey roof on the right is the house above
two on the right are the two above
view down the water way
Impressed
the house above from above
I’m OK. I don’t have Obsessive Comparative Disorder because I used Google Maps instead of Zillow.
Welcome to Jupiter, FL
Jupiter Federal Bridge
Jupiter inlet from under the Federal Bridge
Waves! Impressed.
Jupiter Island, FL. Much better than Miami in my mind. The houses have land around them. Urban sprawl. Much more low keyed.
Obsessive Comparative Disorder view of above home
Tiger Woods’ home
Tiger Woods’ home
Who Cares Tiger’s neighbor’s boat
Obsessive Comparative Disorder view
Obsessive Comparative Disorder view
We’ve seen this boat before. Yesterday as a matter of fact. The Hudson was grounded out mid-channel at St Lucie. She’s waiting for a rising tide. yes dear… had the barnacles off her belly and her rudder polished as she plowed through the in-channel sand bar behind the Hudson.
Check out placement of the red and green channel markers. Impressed.
We were attacked by about two dozen small sailboats just after clearing the bridge. A regatta was in full sail an using ICW channel markers for race markers. I was at the helm (missing a great photo op) when they attacked. Vessels under sail have right of way to vessels under power. yes dear… had to freeze in place and hoover until they cleared us. One of the safety patrol monitoring boats hailed us and told us to watch out for them as they raced 4 miles up to the next bridge and back. EeeYow!
For some reason this guy decided to join the mix too
Oopsies
He’s off!
Just in time to cut in front of us again.
It was a great day for sailing.
Harbour Isle condos, Fort Pierce
Harbour Isle condos
Island with NO mangrove trees!
Good Night
Middle of Indian River near island IR37, Vero Beach, FL
2-FEB-2021 Tuesday – Bay between Hibiscus Island and Star Island, Miami Beach, FL to Lake Worth Lagoon, South end of West Palm Beach, FL (59.0 nautical miles 67.9 statute miles)
26°39’26.9″N 80°02’41.6″W 26.657482, -80.044887 Elevation: Sea Level States (1): Florida
It was a rough night. A small craft advisory (sustained winds between 20 and 33 knots) held throughout the night. It’s still in the high 40s/low 50s.
This neighbor came in early morning. The plastic barrel mounted on top has a light in it and is his spot light/running lights.
Check out his outboard, inboard motor.
Along the Way
Cruising speed today through the city is ‘no wake’, bout 5 knots for us.
Miami Beach
Venetian East Bridge
Big boat marina
Miami in the rear view
Sunset Islands
Indian Creek neighborhood
Ivanka and Jarod’s new digs
Ivanka and Jarod’s view – right
Ivanka and Jarod’s view – center (La Gorce Island $$$$$)
Ivanka and Jarod’s view – left
Next visit Dale and I are going to stay here on Normandy Isles
Indian Creek Country Club
small home on the point
Trump Palace in Sunny Isles, FL – $402 get you a room by ice machine
Sunny Isles shacks
Trump Condos in Sunny Isles, FL
What a multi million $$ house next to a bridge looks like
matching red cushions and boats
Modest homes in Hollywood, FL
who designed this?
South Lake looking up the shaft
old tour boat
There’s been too much wind today to run at idle speed. We needed to run a little higher speed than that to manage control the boat.
HA! Some of the wind waves today have exceeded the 15 inch max.
protected shoreline
bridge iguana
They are probably going to have to move the sailboat to sell the lot
largest TowBoat US I’ve ever seen
Ft Lauderdale
Port Everglades
Placing container on truck
Picking a container
even bigger cranes
Port Everglades dockmaster
turning assistance
Skyfall valued at $27.9 million
Caribbean Princess
M5 is here at Ft Lauderdale
I love a house where there’s room to park your boat!
Bahia Mar Yacht Club, Ft Lauderdale – Not a single slips not small enough for yes dear…
Amaryllis, $120 mil owned by Andrey
Liberty
trimaran
Gallant Lady
water taxi
almost affordable
Following the Coasties into Pompano Beach
Lift bridge gears
‘Nadan’ was built by Burger in United States at their Manitowoc, Wisconsin shipyard , she was delivered to her owner in 2009 and last refitted in 2019.
Check out the 2nd level infinity pool
Ocean Ave bridge Boyton Beach
Entering into West Palm Beach and Palm Beach
Seen any yellow houses yet today? There’s one. Just a modest mid sized one.
Some houses I didn’t even attempt to take a picture of because I didn’t have a panoramic lens.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
The Fort Lauderdale area only began to develop after 1920s during the Florida land boom, made possible by the invention of air conditioning.
Fort Lauderdale is known as the “Venice of America” for its extensive system of waterways, including the New River, Intracoastal Waterway and a large number of canals.
There were 3 forts named “Fort Lauderdale” built by the United States during the Second Seminole War 1835 to 1842: the first was at the fork of the New River, the second was at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the present-day Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third was near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
Fort Lauderdale is home to Port Everglades, one of the largest ship terminals in the world. It’s home to 10 major cruise lines, over 40 massive ships and one daily ferry operator. It is also one of the top 10 container ports in the US.
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The high today was 59 degrees. I was forced to put socks on due to the cold. 🙁 This is the first time since Nov 2. It’s 92 days without socks.
Drolleries and Yuks
Which celebrity is always ready to eat cereal? ~Reese with her spoon.
1-FEB-2021 Monday – John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Key Largo FL to Biscayne Bay between Hibiscus Island and Star Island, Miami Beach, FL (34.0 nautical miles 39.1 statute miles)
25°07’26.3″N 80°24’24.6″W 25.123967, -80.406837 Elevation: Sea Level States (1): Florida
Along the Way
The first action just before first light of the morning was a pump out. The full light wasn’t on but after being on the dock for 2 weeks we were certain we needed one. The marina had just fixed the pump out station. It’s a free pump out station. Free only goes so far….. A local entrepreneur with a pump out service boat has been sneaking into the marina once or twice a week after hours and emptying his load, breaking it every time uses it. He was told not to but since it was ‘free’ he still used it. He really got in trouble for breaking it this last time. The pump out station was down for 5 days.
WOW. We really understood why he kept coming back to to use this pump station (besides it being free). A couple of big gulps and yes dear… was almost sucked inside out. This pump out station has to go on the ‘Best of the Best’ list!!!
We are off into the Atlantic
A cold front with rain and high winds was forecast for the day. Time to make make miles while the sun shines. We wanted to make Angel Fish Creek before the cold front hit.
Entering Angel Fish Creek cut to Card Sound
Another boat sheltering for the arrival of the cold front.
Wind, waves and rain all came from different directions as we waited out the arrival of the cold front storm. Fortunately it only lasted for 20 minutes and we were off. Unfortunately the high winds persisted as we crossed from Card Sound into Biscayne Bay, then into Miami.
Gale for wind warnings were issued. The U.S. National Weather Service defines a gale as 34–47 knots of sustained surface winds.
The west and windward side of Biscayne Bay is quite shallow. This meant we had to travel in the middle of it to have enough water under the keel. This also meant that we’d be dealing with significant waves on the beam building over a 5 nautical mile fetch (i.e. the length of water over which a given wind has blown without obstruction).
The bay was snotty. Waves were choppy and confused. We tacked our way through the the Biscayne Bay challenged to figure out the best 45 degree angle to aim yes dear… at so we could optimally hit them. I’ll take torrential rain over waves on the beam any day of the week.
On more than one occasion in the course of the day I wondered what the heck we were doing out here. Occasionally wind would sweep the splash of a wave soundly into the upper helm.
Port waves bowing across the bow to the starboard
We weren’t the only ones not enjoying the wind. There were multiple ‘pan pan’ issued for capsized boats, a sunken seaplane, a missing diver and persons in the water. (Pan pan is a nautical urgency message that someone is in trouble and needs assistance, but does not pose an immediate danger to anyone’s life or to the vessel itself.)
This boat was enjoying the waves. Looks like a drug runner.
Take me to Miami
Miami
Miami
Vizcaya Museum
Port of Miami
Brickell Key
Miami River
Bayfront Park
Miami Heat stadium
Dodge Island
Island Gardens luxury yacht marina.
Fountainhead – owner Eddie Lampert (Sears)
Gene Machine – owner Jonathan Rothberg (DNA sequencer)
Path through Miami to our anchorage
tour map
rounding the corner
Venetian Islands
Flagler Memorial Island – It’s perfectly round.
Henry Flagler Monument
Hibiscus Island
Star Island
House owned by Phillip Frost
Neighbors
Just of few of our anchorage visitors.
This boat’s last cruise was about 9:00pm
Once it was dark the locals came cruising. Music BLARING.
Good Night
Miami Beach lights
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Miami is the only US city that was founded by a woman. A local businesswoman called Julia Tuttle encouraged a developer to extend the new Florida East Coast Railroad to Miami in 1896 – this led the way to the development of modern Miami.
Miami was once a mangrove swamp and the land we now know as Miami is mostly man made. As a result, some of the beaches need to be replenished with sand regularly.
Suntan lotion was invented in Miami. A pharmacist called Benjamin Green invented the mixture in 1944.
The first Burger King opened in Miami in 1954, and three years later, it introduced the iconic Whopper.
Drolleries and Yuks
What’s a New York wife’s favorite wine? ~Take me to Miami.
What’s the difference between a jet engine and a New York wife? ~The jet engine stops whining when it gets to Miami.
