Monday
10th Dec
Once again because of
the lack of wind, we motorsailed through the day and night to Fort Pierce, arriving on
Tuesday 11th at the new Harbourtown Marina. We stayed there last year, a very nice little
marina, where, when doing your laundry you can sit outside on the rocking
chairs, sippin’ beer watching the sun set!!!!! Tough huh?
Having found out a
few days ago that the wind instrument at the top of the mast wasn’t working
properly, we decided it was in our best interest to replace it. So Roger went up
the mast again and fitted the new one.The system he has rigged up using the
anchor windlass, works extremely well making it easy for me to get him up
there.
As the marina had
complimentary bikes, we grabbed a couple and cycled the couple of miles into the
town. It’s very hard to describe Fort Pierce. It’s a quaint little chocolate box
town, but there are no people!! That’s not exactly true, obviously, it just
seems like that. There are however, lots of policemen. We can only assume they
had to saturate the town with them because most of them were so overweight, they
wouldn’t have been able to chase after anyone!!! The town also has a very
imposing Court House and lots, and I mean LOTS of lawyers.
It was a pleasant
bike ride and I finally got to see one of those mythical Floridian creatures …..
a Manatee. No, not a real one, remember they are mythical, but a fibreglass one
and a video at the local manatee observation station. It is situated at the
water outlet pipe of the local electricity generation station. They claim
manatees congregate there, but until I see one, I am not a
believer!!