Back in Florida - Week One
Lynn & Mike ..around the world
Mike Drinkrow & Lynn v/d Hoven
Fri 11 Mar 2011 17:06
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080:03.27W Week One on Time 2 at Old Port
Cove
We have been back in Florida for a week
now. The flight over was fairly pleasant - plane was
empty and we were able to stretch out. However the effects of a 34 hour
journey and 7 time zones took its toll, and we took quite a few days to get
over the jet lag. Waking up at 4am every night was becoming a bad
habit.
It was very exciting to get back to Time 2 - our new
home. She has been under the care of James Knight and the team at Yacht Tech who
have done quite a bit of work, getting her ready for our next journey. It is
hard to believe that this boat is 6 years old - she looks brand new! Old
Port Cove is currently hosting 12 Nordhavn's, including 4 of the 38 Nordhavn
57's ever built - quite a site!
The marina at Old Port Cove is fabulous. The staff
are very helpful and have golf carts to help you take stuff down the floating
docks to your boat. Lucky for us - as we had a lot of unloading to
do! When we sold Indigo we took a storage garage in Palm Beach that was
filled to the brim of boxes, crates, dive gear, tools, clothes, books etc etc.
All this had to be taken down to Time 2. We rented a car - the crazy looking
CUBE - which proved to be an effective "bakkie"! We also had a spare
outboard engine, our dive compressor and 2 canoes to bring on board. Mike
fetched these with James' small boat. North Palm Beach, like many of the other
areas of Florida is full of waterways, and it is often quicker to get around on
the water. Finding a place for all our belongings has been quite a
challenge - as you not only have to pack them away, but make sure that which is
regularly needed is accessible, and more importantly, remember where everything
is!
One 'near disaster' of unpacking... we could not find
the crate with Mike's fishing reels..that is - ALL his fishing reels!! We
searched and searched, mentally going over all our packing and
unpacking, from Annapolis down to Florida - even contacted the new owner of
Indigo to check that we had not left them behind...but ..nothing! This was
not helping Mike's sleeping pattern! However after a few days we found one
crate, hidden under our new BBQ !! Yippeeeeeee! There they were, and
peace was restored! Mike has now put up 7 rod-holders on the back deck
roof, to accommodate his precious toys!
Given the disaster in Japan, our weather news seems
somewhat insignificant, however we did have a storm. It created a
waterspout with high winds that tore right through the marina. Mike and I were
our shopping, but apparently it passed right in front of Time 2. Boxes and
canoe oars on our back deck were scattered around and one shoe lost!
Other boats were not that lucky, with torn bimini covers and one foresail that
got unwound and shredded. Some furniture also flew off one of the high-rise
condo buildings on to the marina. But it all passed quite quickly and this
morning the skies are clear.
While doing lots of work, and preparing Time 2 for the
next leg of our trip, we have also found time to catch up with friends in
Florida. Tom von Ohlen came over from Bonita Springs to help us the first
weekend, Louis Graham popped over for dinner and this weekend we are going down
to Fort Lauderdale to see Will & Di Patterson.
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