We made a soft landing on the dock this time to get our boat full with water, diesel and to have our head pumped out. A week ago or so when we did the same we had a terrible time a the dock. The dock here is very tricky with the posts on the outside of the dock without ANY padding on them what so ever. There is a lot of current here and I have already mentioned the sport boats that zoom by creating a hellish wake. We can not for the life of us figure out why the channel that goes by this anchorage with 69 boats, and docks with at least that many more is not a No Wake zone. 6 years Don has been handling this boat in all kinds of conditions and last week was the first time we have done any damage to the boat. We took a chunk out of the cap rail. It's only a boat but upsetting at the same time. This time we got up very early in the morning ans we know tomorrow is going to be more wind, rain and cold and the forecast for today was calmer and sun. Slack tide was at 8:30 so we were on the dock by 8:00 - we had just one sport boat wake us unnecessarily - after he did we saw him for 10 minutes waiting for the bridge to open - was it worth pushing and pushing our boat into the dock? We have wonderful friends who are Floridians but we have to say we have never seen such boat antics and frightening automobile drivers as here in Florida. Quite a few of the boaters ave commented that no one will stop even when you are in the cross walk here - that was our experience 2 years ago as well. Ahh... enough of that - it's a beautiful day - the sailors are upbeat - we've got our supplies and don't care if we are hunkered down tomorrow - we have our generator to give us power to run the computer for a while. We have books to read and games to play - Our friends Carl and Laura will come over for dinner - so another great day on the water - I wouldn't be saying that if we didn't have heat in our boat !
Carl
We made a soft landing on the dock this time to get our boat full with water, diesel and to have our head pumped out. A week ago or so when we did the same we had a terrible time a the dock. The dock here is very tricky with the posts on the outside of the dock without ANY padding on them what so ever. There is a lot of current here and I have already mentioned the sport boats that zoom by creating a hellish wake. We can not for the life of us figure out why the channel that goes by this anchorage with 69 boats, and docks with at least that many more is not a No Wake zone. 6 years Don has been handling this boat in all kinds of conditions and last week was the first time we have done any damage to the boat. We took a chunk out of the cap rail. It's only a boat but upsetting at the same time. This time we got up very early in the morning ans we know tomorrow is going to be more wind, rain and cold and the forecast for today was calmer and sun. Slack tide was at 8:30 so we were on the dock by 8:00 - we had just one sport boat wake us unnecessarily - after he did we saw him for 10 minutes waiting for the bridge to open - was it worth pushing and pushing our boat into the dock? We have wonderful friends who are Floridians but we have to say we have never seen such boat antics and frightening automobile drivers as here in Florida. Quite a few of the boaters ave commented that no one will stop even when you are in the cross walk here - that was our experience 2 years ago as well. Ahh... enough of that - it's a beautiful day - the sailors are upbeat - we've got our supplies and don't care if we are hunkered down tomorrow - we have our generator to give us power to run the computer for a while. We have books to read and games to play - Our friends Carl and Laura will come over for dinner - so another great day on the water - I wouldn't be saying that if we didn't have heat in our boat ! 
Carl
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If I had a choice between the two boats in this photo...
you'll need that elusive job...she's 90 feet "Glory" A real beauty but alittle pricier than the Westsail 32 on a mooring ball !
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