"the Bles-sing!" made the 87 miles to Dayton in about 10 hours. There was great scenery and one adventure along the way. The ICW was pretty busy. We are renting a slip from another boater in Charleston, who is boating south until July, and just happened to pass them. We hailed them on 16 and talked for a few minutes!
We got a face dock at the marina, very welcome after a long day. We just slide right up to the dock and home for the night!
During the trip we happened up on a sad sight, like passing a car wreck on the highway. We noticed boats were stopped ahead of us and when we slowly passed it was because of a dead manatee that had probably been struck by a boat's prop. They are such gentle creatures ... makes us want to heed those "slow speed manatee area" signs even more. Out of respect for the family we didn't take pictures.
Adventure of the day. As we approached a known shoaling area at Ponce de Leon inlet on the Indian River we were being extra cautious about our depth. Just as we got to the crucial spot a big sailboat ground and stuck in front of us. There was just enough room to slide by off her port side so we kept moving. The sailboat, in the effort to get unstuck, put up another sail and started moving toward us. We gunned the engines and narrowly got by her. The sailboat ended up stuck again and we heard the crew calling tow boat US for help later on.
Big open waters and heavy wind made for a bumpy ride most of the way to Daytona.
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