Bethune Park Anchorage in Daytona - at anchor

 

The dinghy dock is very nice and it comes with a park for walking Hoolie

The winds of yesterday topped out at 35 kts in the marina! Overnight, the winds did die down and this morning, it was less than 10 kts with full sunshine, a perfect day. It was a Sunday so there was lots of traffic out enjoying the sunny conditions. The only potential problem was Ponce de Leon and that was not a problem if you hugged the reds. 

So if you go north on the ICW, it’s a different 
Speed limit than if you go south?

We pulled into the Bethune Park anchorage around 2:15 and found lots of room in 11 ft of water. We replaced the anchor we lost in Caesars Creek, another 66 lb Spade but this time with 90 feet of 3/8 inch BBB chain instead of 60 ft. I put out all the chain and only about 10 feet of nylon line, plenty of rode.

We like this anchorage due to good holding, plenty of room, and a dinghy dock for Hoolie relief. I did have a scare tonight when I was halfway to the dinghy dock, the outboard motor died. It would start again but when I put it under load, it would quit. It could be a bunch of things but I tried the simplest things first. The easiest was to just replace the spark plug and lo and behold, that did the trick. The old spark plug still looked okay to me, no obvious buildup but it turned a no functioning outboard into a dependable one, whew! 

A calm end to a day of travel

We have reservations for two nights at St Augustine starting Monday before moving on to Sister’s Creek and Fernandina.