(Day 2) Rivers Edge Marina, St. Augustine, Florida: November 2, 2020
Marc- We are settling the boat in for the next two months here. The location is good, the price is right and the weather improved a lot today making everything better. Seeing our location on a sunny morning helped a lot and we spent the day playing tourist in downtown St. Augustine. This was a nice day to stay in port. The ICW was rough today with 20 knot winds gusting to 25 knots. We walked halfway over the Bridge of Lions to get an overview of the harbor (Florida does not have many hills to climb). The bridge opened as we reached the center and several boats rushed through including a large fishing trawler that was having some listing problems with its outriggers up. The trawler lowered its outriggers immediately after passing through and this did help its stability. The Northern mooring field was very exposed to the Northeast winds and the boats here were bouncing.
Back at the boats we started to prepare for our departure. I placed double lines on all docking lines and added two spring lines to Fiddler's Green from Lucy III. Both boats now have a spider web of lines to protect them. Next was taking the dinghy off its davits and placing it overturned on the foredeck. This was accomplished by Sue operating the electric anchor windlass to raise the dinghy by the spinnaker halyard. I simply had to adjust the dinghy down on the deck. Tomorrow we will clean and lock things up. We'll probably leave for home by rental car with Michael & Doreen on Wednesday, Nov. 4.
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