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It has been a long slog south this past couple of months, not that it has been uneventful on board SV Tranquility. After winterizing a clients boat in Glouster Virginia we sailed on the out side south to Titusville Florida arriving on Thanksgiving day and had a burnt pork dinner and were all in bed by 6:30pm. The kids Maya and Fynn have been doing watches with us learning about navigation and constellation’s, checking on the course and keeping an eye on the radar, we have yet to pull out the paper charts for plotting the course but that will happen on the next adventure.We were all delighted to hear the sonic boom of the space shuttle Discovery entering earths atmosphere on November 27th landing directly across from us at Kennedy Space Center, the kids had front row seats as we pulled up space.com so they could hear and watch the landing inside the control room and see the shuttle descending onto the runway, it was way cool! We were helping out our friends Mike and Rana with their boat “Raven” to re step her mast’s and splash her for the season at the Westland Marina in Titusville. The word got out that Cameron for Trans Marine Pro was in the neighbourhood and before we knew it he was doing a complete re-wire on SV “Go Lucky” see the note below of Klaus comments of Cameron’s work ethics -”Dear Cameron, I would like to thank you for the dedication you put into this job. This was truly unique , not seen by me before in my many years of working also in this country.Thanks again, good health to all of your family and a truly happy next year.Klaus”
The Marina was a great place to meet interesting people and it was lovely to be surprised by some old friends that we hadn’t seen in a while. Leighia managed to get some of the fellow cruisers out of bed at 7am for Yoga on the Clam dock, I don’t think the locals had seen anything like it before and were quite taken back by all the stretching and bending that was going on so early in the morning. The time finally came for SV Tranquility and her crew to jump on the weather window that provided the perfect sailing conditions for us to get south to Marathon in the Keys. We had a great sail, winds were 20-25kts out of the NE and the boat was averaging 7.5 SOG our big heavy girl likes those conditions so it was very comfortable, we only had to turn the motor on once outside Miami when the wind died out for a bit, but then as soon as we made the course change she picked up speed again and we had the wind on our bean and the swell behind us, it was truly great it was exciting to be sailing again!
We made it under the telephone wire which is a source of great debate on how high it actually is, it is meant to be 65ft (with the boot key harbor bridge now constantly open) it is the only restriction. our mast has been measured at 67ft, Leighia had go up the mast on our last time here because we were unsure if we would hit the wire. This time we went in at low tide .4 above datum, we didn’t plow through the mud and didn’t touch the wire, so our conclusion is that AT’T telephone company has raised the wire since so many other boats have hit it. Now we think that we only had an extra foot above our wind gear and antennas so take it as you will, we are only writing our experience and don’t take responsibilty for people taking our word on the wire!SV Tranquility is now sitting comfortably on mooring V1 in Boot Key Harbor Marathon and will be here at least untill the Miami Sail Boat show. Trans Marine will be at the show in booth 862 promoting and selling D400 wind generators and Ocra Green Marines LED Nav lights, (and their new interior LED’s) and of course our services as licenced and professional installers for renewable energy and electrical systems. (more…)
The front has finally gone through and we left Rudee’s inlet at high tide this morning. We are currently sailing along Its Blowing 20-25 out of the W-NW. Flat seas at the moment but expected to change when rounding Hatteras. We will update our blog page as long as we have internet. The kids have their sleeping bags out and are camping in the main saloon eating peanut butter samies.It should take us about 10days @ 5kn (currently doing 8-9knts) to get to the Keys. With the smell of salt in the air, the cold northerly wind at our backs, the sunshine glittering on the oceans surface. We are smokin along at 7.5kts. Love life and laugh often
The Marina was a great place to meet interesting people and it was lovely to be surprised by some old friends that we hadn’t seen in a while. Leighia managed to get some of the fellow cruisers out of bed at 7am for Yoga on the Clam dock, I don’t think the locals had seen anything like it before and were quite taken back by all the stretching and bending that was going on so early in the morning. The time finally came for SV Tranquility and her crew to jump on the weather window that provided the perfect sailing conditions for us to get south to Marathon in the Keys. We had a great sail, winds were 20-25kts out of the NE and the boat was averaging 7.5 SOG our big heavy girl likes those conditions so it was very comfortable, we only had to turn the motor on once outside Miami when the wind died out for a bit, but then as soon as we made the course change she picked up speed again and we had the wind on our bean and the swell behind us, it was truly great it was exciting to be sailing again!