Vero Beach

More southbound chugging today. We motorsailed with main and genoa all day, averaged around 7 kts and made Vero Beach 30 minutes before sunset. A bit risky as the places to anchor before Vero are pretty few and far between, but we made it in. Rafted with a Canadian couple from Ottawa on their way to the Bahamas. The municipal mooring field is very inexpensive, like 13 bucks, but they raft the boats 2 and 3 deep. Nice facilities here and a super tucked in spot. Cuttyhunk with manatees and palm trees.

Will be an easy run to Stuart tomorrow. More muni-moorings there. Seems a Florida trend for the towns to set up very cheap moorings to keep the vagrants out... Someties we're the vagrants. They are trying to outlaw anchoring. Not sure if I agree but the super cheap mooring fields with great showers, laundry and transportation, I'm a fan of.

We had some dolphins do the "playing in the bow wave" thing again today. We see dolphins every half hour, but it's really cool to have them so close to the boat. Like watching whales, it doesn't get old.

I had lots of help at the helm today. Lex stood a long watch mid day and Tyler took the wheel for an hour at the end of the day. Liza had a short trick as well. Pretty soon I'll be starting rum drinks at noon while the crew gets us where we need to go! (just kidding mom...)

More tomorrow, we haven't had a real wifi connection for a bit, so no photo uploads, but we'll find one.

A couple of updates,

We are migrating the blog to www.schnauck.com - but the old address will always work as well. Also, we ported the home/Lex cell number (781-834-2888) to google voice. So we now have 781-834-3332 and 2888 as goog numbers so we won't loose them. Three numbers (617-872-1763) now ring on one cell on the boat. We killed my cell service with AT&T and will shut the Verizon service when we cross to the Bahamas as it is astinomical for roaming. All numbers will roll to voicemail and we will be able to get messages when we have wifi in various spots.

I am going to "Jailbreak" my iPhone and buy a SIM card for it in the Bahamas when we can, so we have a cell in case of an emergency. I'll post the number when we get it.