Since we no longer have any family memebers in Florida, Kevin and I decided to do something a little different. We set sail Thanksgiving Day for a lovely 4 day cruise and will meet up with Charlie, Pavie and yes Pringle from "Trevier". We both left our ports thursday morning and headed for Cocoa Village to anchor and raft up on the SW side of the 520 causeway. I was doing some cooking while we were under way. I learned a lesson today, never make a pie while underway. I had a pumkin pie in the oven and a nice big sport fisherman boat came by with a nice 3 foot wake and about half of the pie filling slid out of the pie, luckly I had an alluminum foil sheet under the pie. When the filling slid out it also took half the pie crust with it, so it was a very lopsided pie. We all arrived and anchored around noon then started preparing dinner. Kevin smoked a turkey and we had a traditional dinner for Pavie, who is from Sweden and never had thanksgiving.
Friday morning Charlie was up earling and I went out to say good morning to him, he told me about his little visitor last night. About 2:00 am Pringle started barking and Charlie went out on deck to see what was going on, as he entered the cockpit, he heard a splash in the water (thought it was a fish). He then walked around the deck to see if there was anyone or anything to make Pringle bark, nothing. When he got back into the cockpit, he notice a nose and two tiny paws coming up from the dinghy on the the back rail, it was a raccoon. He then proceeded chasing it for about 20 minutes, until it swam off. Who would thing a raccoon would swim out to a boat. We spent a good part of the day walking around Cocoa Village and Pavie was very fasinated with "Travis Hardware Store", it is a very old hardware store that you can spend hours in. Everyone says if you can't find it anywhere else go to Travis. Saturday evening consisted of cocktails and turkey quesadilla's for dinner.
Saturday whe went back into the village for a few supplies then sailed down to Pineda causeway and anchored in the NE corner, since the winds were supposed to pickup and shift. We had a lovely pork roast dinner on Trevier and several bottles of wine.
Sunday morning we were woke to the sound of our anchor alarm, while still rafted. I ran over to Charlies boat and Kevin started the engine, we had drug into the shallows as far as the boats would go. I was at helm and Kevin and Charlie were maning the anchors. In a 25-30 knot wind I managed to manouver both boats, still rafted back up into deeper water to re-set the anchor. We put both ours and Charlies anchors down together and they both set. We all took our time getting up and moving since most of us where hung over. We all headed home around 1300.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Pinedaville 2008
For those of you who have never been to Pinedaville, it is a three day party on the NE beach at Pineda Causeway in Melbourne Florida in the ICW. It is sponsered by ECSA (East Coast Sailing Association) and consisted of about 30-50 boats anchoring and having a lot of fun. Several of the non working class sailors will arrive Thursday or Friday to set up the beach and get the prime anchorage spots. The rest of us slaves to our jobs arrive either Friday night or Saturday morning. Friday night will be a small get together for cocktails on the beach. Saturday the festivaties start around noon. This years theme was "Come as you were when the ship went down". From the photo below you will see there are many views to this theme.
Some of the activaties were a costume contest where the King and Queen are chosen, conch blowing contest, mullet toss (yes you toss a died mullet, the fish), limbo dancing and a lot of eating and drinking.
This year we were with George and Terry from "Serena", Charlie and Pavie from "Trevier" and don't forget Pringle, Charlies cute and loveable dog. Saturday was a lot of fun and the weather was wonderful, until 2100 when the wind shifted from the SW to the NE in a matter of minutes and it became very cold. The forcast stated sevear thunderstorms when the winds shifted, so everyone made a mad dash for their boats. Sunday morning there was a breakfast on the beach, but a lot of people did not go since it turned very cold and there were high winds. We still had a good time and left around noon to come home.
Some of the activaties were a costume contest where the King and Queen are chosen, conch blowing contest, mullet toss (yes you toss a died mullet, the fish), limbo dancing and a lot of eating and drinking.
This year we were with George and Terry from "Serena", Charlie and Pavie from "Trevier" and don't forget Pringle, Charlies cute and loveable dog. Saturday was a lot of fun and the weather was wonderful, until 2100 when the wind shifted from the SW to the NE in a matter of minutes and it became very cold. The forcast stated sevear thunderstorms when the winds shifted, so everyone made a mad dash for their boats. Sunday morning there was a breakfast on the beach, but a lot of people did not go since it turned very cold and there were high winds. We still had a good time and left around noon to come home.
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