This morning, Roy told me to pull up all but ten feet of the chain while he was getting ready. I asked, "Shouldn't the engine be started first?", but Roy told me to pull it up, so I did. There was a strong current, and the boat started drifting. Luckily, it drifted into deep water, not shallow water. Roy soon had the engine started and everything under control, but guess whose fault it was that the boat drifted. Man, even when I obey orders, I'm wrong.
This was another sunny, warm, clear day. There was a brisk breeze out of the west, so we could have sailed if we'd been on the ocean, but there was no good way to get out there. Roy wanted to put the headsail out even there in the ICW, but I talked him out of it. The channel was narrow and shallow, and I was having a hard enough time staying in it with just the engine; sails would have made it twice as difficult. Besides, it was almost time to change course.
The ICW is a lot easier to navigate down here than it was farther north. Or maybe we're just getting better at it. We haven't gone aground once this trip, and we're really making tracks. We've covered more than a hundred miles since leaving St. Augustine.
Went by Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, that we visited with Nancy and Jeanette on our way north. This time, we saw it from the inland side instead of the ocean side.
Florida must be the wettest state in the country. There's water everywhere. Not only natural waterways but also manmade waterways. There are zillions of canals. Practically every homeowner can take his boat to his back door.
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