Bikers week in Daytona

First light at Halifax Harbor Marina

Halifax Harbor Marina

A little too close to Indulgence 

We left the docks in St Augustine at first light.  The other two couples were on moorings and it was too early for the dock hands to be up.  So we undocked ourselves. Now this means that someone has to stay on the dock and untie the lines (me) while the other person (George) has to maneuver the boat in the slip. It was not the best undocking George has ever done but it was the best we had ever done it by ourselves.  Not to say it was perfect or anything.  I was pretty proud of myself.  I was on the dock with the midship line and George said throw the line and jump on.  For one quick moment I “thought he could just leave me”.  I jumped on and away we went. We traveled down the ICW a pretty uneventful but beautiful day.  We were taking 2 hours on and 2 hours off.  So after getting off of my 3:00 turn at the helm, I asked George if I had enough time to exercise and take a shower. “Sure you have enough time; we will not be there until you are on again.  So I exercised and then asked again do I have enough time to take a shower.  Again the reply was you have 30 minutes.  I always hurry when I am in the shower if we are underway.  This time I did as well.  I stepped out of the shower just in time to hear our “all hands on deck signal, the motor throttle down.  I was soaking wet. I jumped out just in time to hear “DO you have your clothes on yet?  We are here!!! We’ve got to get the lines on!!”   I put on my clothes without drying off and ran up to tie the line on without shoes.  We did get the lines on in fact the marina told us to go slow for we were going to be on the T dock stern to stern with our friends, John and Carolyn.  Jan and John B picked up a mooring ball for the night.  We asked later for a bow to stern tie and we got it.  As I got off the boat Carolyn and John was there to meet us, And as always George has a need of a beer right after we docked.  In most cases it is pure medicinal!!  Nerves are strained during docking! Halifax Harbor Marina is the prettiest Marina I have ever seen.  John and George like it because it has a West Marine on site. 

Mama's new ride

Carolyn was all excited!  It is Bikers week in Daytona!  Let’s go look.  Carolyn and I wanted to have our picture made with some rough tattooed Biker but we didn’t find one cute enough.  There were Bikers of all ages, races and careers. There were bikes and Bikers everywhere! I told Carolyn that we looked better on a sail boat than on a back of a motorcycle. The bikers looked as if they were having a good ole time.  If I were not a sailor I might be a Biker.  Looks like fun to me.

Riding the waves

George and Freida