Not Leaving

FRIDAY- Our only motion is swinging on the hook near Seabeeze Bridge in Daytona, Florida. Luckily there's civilization nearby..... the navigation computer's hard drive has crashed! Even in small town Daytona though, a google search located a repair shop close ashore. The helpful young techy confirmed the drive is completely dead so Mike bought & installed a new one. Connecting it's a snap but the arduous process of installing & configuring windows and all the other navigational software & devices takes many hours so we're doing what cruisers always do..... staying another day! If the hard drive had been readable, cloning it to a new one would have saved many hours. I bet we'll clone this new one!

SATURDAY- Mike got up late after working on the computer until 4:00 AM. Louis & I followed each other around, doing chores and not disturbing him while he continued the configuration. Progress is solid but slow. No shore time today but it's sunny and 72 degrees, a great day for sitting on deck. Tonight will be a movie night, gently swinging on the hook.

SUNDAY- Yay! We left this morning. All systems were go, with great weather. Hauled anchor at 9:00AM and anchored again at 6:00PM in Coca Beach, just south of Cape Canaveral. These I.C.W. waters are all very, very shallow except in the marked channels. Many places people are standing knee deep just outside the day markers. There must be plenty of sea life, though, because there are so many fisherman, birds, and a multitude of dolphins in these 2 to 4 foot deep waters.

Tonight we watched Downton Abbey on PBS! Tomorrow we'll go ashore and explore the little town of Cocoa Beach. “Christina Sea” GH 47 number 4 (we're hull 6), owned by George and Christy Comrie is docked here. We'll visit Christy (George is away) and catch up on their news. We may stay in Cocoa Beach a couple of days.

Old Kress building in Daytona Beach

Mike loading software on the computer.