Day Three Continued Daytona to the Railroad bridge North of Melbourne

My new "Best Friend Forever" mechanic and Captain Wes Malone is shown here after finishing a particurlarly challenging filter R and R. Wes is a great guy. Honest, dependable and a genuinely nice person. After a couple of hours of hard work we were underway departing Halifax Harbour Marina, one of the finest municipal marinas on the East coast of FL. Another back story to Halifax Harbor Marina is that it is the location of the Broker and Broker's rep that I bought the boat from, Bill Eve of Yacht Brokers at Halifax Harbour Marina. Bill is also a fantastic guy and ironically, completely by chance (or maybe not if you are a person of faith), Bill was the child of Missionaries, like Candy and Dusty, and had attended the same boarding school for the children of Missionaries and Preachers Kids and the like, Taccoa Falls Institute, later Toccoa Falls Academy in Taccoa, Ga, that Candy attended a couple of years. Bill attended years earlier than Candy but the connection seems more than a coincidence, doesn't it? Well, here is "the rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would say. We bought BossSea through Bill who was fantastic to deal with as was the company. If you ever want to buy or sell a boat I would highly recommend these folks. Bill stopped by the boat and chatted awhile as Wes was working away (Bill had introduced us to Wes who is also a Captain who came to check us out in the boat over in Sanford back in early June after our purchase.) Again, coincidence, right? I don't think so. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of Bill. Sorry Bill! Next time for sure. To follow is our parting shot fro Halifax Harbour Marina. We look forward to another visit.

Proceeding down the Intracoastal we passed Ponce Inlet with the beautiful lighthouse as shown here.








Trouble followed however when we got to the railroad that goes over to Cape Canaveral. It is closed for all but two hours per day. Now we wait til 5pm!











More later! Hopefully we make Cocoa but it is not looking good!