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| Floating, concrete docks at Harbortown, no current, free electric, great place |
Nice, easy day to go north. We chose slack tide to leave our
slip at St. Augustine so that was no problem. Of the three boats that we left
with, we were the only one that went north up the ICW, the rest went outside.
It was a pleasant ride north, no waves, no wind and we made our marina by
12:30. The marina, Harbortown, used to take in transients but then they had a
bad experience with one crew that claimed they tripped over something on the
dock and sued the marina for medical expensives. The dockhand we talked to
didn't believe for an instant that they actually paid the doctor what they
claimed, they just wanted to collect easy money, $5000 worth. It would have
cost the marina more than that just to contest the lawsuit. So the end result
was to punish all law abiding cruisers by not allowing dockage to cruisers in
the future. So once again, one bad apple ruins the barrel for everyone else!
However, since the dockmaster knows us personally, we can still get a dock but
nobody else can.
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| Economy's recovering in Florida - it appears. This was a vacant lot in the fall |
I walked into town for butter and hamburger buns and
discovered that Fresh Market was open again, it had been closed when we came
south in the fall. It is a great supermarket, somewhat like Adams in Arlington.
I stocked up on huge grapefruit, lobster salad, fresh tuna steaks, pastries for
Sunday morning Macedonia nut cookies for Ann, her favorite.
We'll just spend one night here and ride the incoming tide
to Jacksonville and Sadler Point Marina where we'll have our genset serviced.
There's nothing wrong with it but it needs a yearly checkup. Hopefully, we'll
meet up again with Lee and Emma Rose.
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