Norfolk to Fort Lauderdale Day 7½ - Up the New River, and back again a bit
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Date 1230 Thursday 9 February 2012 Prior to arrival the motley crew cleaned up real good, as they say over
here; modesty forbids the Skipper from appearing here but he was shinny as
well..
It was then a wait for the 1130 opening of the
The island that our apartment is on is the second island after the
bridge. The guest annex is the smaller square building between the motor yacht
and the main house.
And just to prove it, the Mate is doing a passable impression of a
garden gnome. , minus fishing rod.
It was good to see her and minus a walking stick. An interesting and somewhat circuitous route took us up the ICW and
then right, west, into the
Due to slight misunderstanding of where our berth was we requested a
bridge opening of the 3rd Avenue Bridge and went through only for the bridge to
close behind us and for us to immediately request another opening to get back
to our allocated berth. The In my defence we were not that far seaward of the bridge as this photograph
subsequently taken from the
The Mate duly joined us bringing wheels support and whilst she went off
for an appointment the crew relaxed and savoured the pleasure of arrival. The trip took 6 days and 4 hours, we stopped in Beaufort for 19 hours
30 minutes and covered overall 849nm through the water and 892 nm over the
ground, meaning that we successfully stayed inshore of the Gulf Stream all of
the way and benefited 43nm from the favourable current. The average speed for
the trip, excluding the stop in Beaufort was 6.6 knots over the ground and 6.94
knots over the ground. We motored for a total of 48 hours when the wind was too
light to make sensible progress. Given the fact that it is February it was a
remarkably good trip in an ideal weather window. A recce trip to
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