3/10/2011 NEW RIVER, FORT LAUDERDALE AND SOME EXCITMENT

THURSDAY

TOTAL MILES TRAVERLED TODAY: 0 NM

Dan’s day started out a little shaky and continued on in that vein. He discovered that he had not taken his lunch and phoned me to either bring it join him for lunch. After a thorough search of all the likely places he might have set his lunch, I, just by chance, looked in the trash receptacle by our sidewalk power hook up. Sure enough, he had inadvertently placed it there thinking it was the morning trash. I salvaged my glass dish a tossed the rest then picked him up for a lunch with six of his classmates and the teacher.

During lunch, boating stories flew around the table while the skies became dark and the rain dropped in buckets. We were drenched just walking to the car and  it had let up considerably!  Back at the school, Dan found that due to a nearby tornado the power was off at the school and they had to do their reading and review for tomorrow’s test in a rather dark room.

One of the guys in class, Adam, alerted Dan thet he would be piloting the New Moon II past our Quest this evening while taking her back up river to the storage marina. Seems the owners that were onboard last weekend don’t like to be stuck up there and it was Adam’s job to reposition her now that they were no longer in residence. He gave us a wave and a shout as he motored past us.




NEW MOON II COMING AROUND THE BEND



SCOTT PILOTING THE NEW MOON II



Dan’s night held yet a little more excitement. He fell asleep watching TV but was awakened after midnight by a bit of commotion outside. Seems that a sailboat traveling up the New River had made a wrong turn somewhere and thought they were still on the ICW. When they rounded the corner and saw the bridge they kind of panicked. While trying to turn the vessel around they were caught in the current and their bow hit the boat docked behind us. That would be twice they hit them! For some reason, they dropped their anchor and just kept bouncing just off the Algonquin.  At least by now they had their bumpers out and Garth was up trying to protect his boat. I don’t know why they didn’t just walk the boat to the available space between our two docked boats and tie up for the night but they seemed intent on getting back into the ICW and on to Miami. We finally went back to bed after 1:00 AM and they were still waiting for someone from the Fish and Wildlife  to arrive to take a repoort. We will get the entire story tonight as we have been invited to their boat for cocktails. Never a dull moment!