Just A Little Squall To Jazz Up Our Day

We had an uneventful night last night, not even any wind (that we heard anyway), but we talked to Theresa on 'It'll Be Alright', whom we'd met in Marathon.  They went further than us, about 6 miles, into a protected bay in Stuart and at 5:30 in the morning they broke loose after high winds that switched 180 degrees and dislodged their anchor.

But....today was our day!  We travelled all the way to Ft. Pierce under gloomy skies and calm seas when we started to see the storm build up on the western horizon.  Checked the radar and it looked like the storms were well below us with just a little line headed our way.  Hoped we'd make it ahead of it all but we got caught in a squall.  Gary turned us into the wind but not before the wind caught us and heeled us to starboard (that's to the right for the not nautically versed) we bounced back from that and headed into the wind (reversing our direction to south) until the squall passed.

I am not scared when we get in situations like this because it happens very quickly and you don't have time to think....just react and I know that Gary is on top of it.  If it was me in charge we would have gone down a long time ago!!!!

We are anchored off of the southernmost bridge in Melbourne tonight.  We hoped to get to Dragon Point on the south tip of Merritt Island but the squall held us up and the winds predicted tonight dictated Gary's prudent choice. 

That's our position...the green  boat  but our bow is facing the bridge now that we are anchored....always into the wind!

We are protected from the predicted NW winds by the bridge, its time to relax with a 'sundowner' and have a 'concoction' dinner.  That means we are very low on food and anything goes!!!

Here are some photographic memories of the day..

Not looking so good

Not Fog....Rain

 Rain hitting the water so fast and furious it looks like a bad case of dandruff!

Another one coming.....it missed!

One man down.

Another casualty...when we did our 180 pirouette into the wind the port door which we haven't sealed (yet another project) took a direct hit and the water came in...this is the result.

All in all not a good day but not a bad one either.....