When the opportunity to strikes for an easy departure, sometimes you just have to go for it……and that we did. Fort Pierce …… home to a lot of fond memories would be our next port of call.
Our dear friend Richard and his crew aboard Un-tethered (Selene 57) from Urbanna (actually California) are headed there and fall in behind us on the ocean. They have left Charleston and will be doing a two night trip. It was nice to have a “buddy boat” that is actually a buddy! His crew will be disembarking in Fort Pierce and fly home on Monday. Richard will leave the boat in Fort Pierce through Christmas and be back with his wife after the first of the year when they will start their trip to the Bahamas. This is their first trip and I think they are both excited for this new adventure.
We pull in about 9:00 in the morning maybe an hour past Richard and head for our favorite anchoring spot near Faber Cove. We had a very easy overnight while Cooper and Jaxon must have been up all night because this morning they are plum worn out.
Greg and I take the opportunity to get the dinghy prepared for deployment but before we do that we decide to remove her old registration and put her new numbers on her side so that we will be official (legal). Greg works the heat gun to help loosen the old numbers while I scrape and peel the old off. Next we would rub with alcohol to clean of all adhesive and then go to work putting on the new ones. She looks great!
Now we are ready to launch her but we are tired from lack of sleep so we decide to hold off until tomorrow when we are “fresh” to go visit our friend Richard and check out Fort Pierce.