Monday March 11.2013      
       January and February were packed full of life, both good and bad. So we did not have the prep time for this trip as we have had in the past. We left Brunswick a little raddled and unorganized. Drew Orr worked on our anemometer until about 10:00. Got it fix but we were to tired to clean up. We decided I would organize while George was at the helm on our way to Fernandina. As we started out the inlet we realized our auto pilot was not working. We looked at each other and realized our hearts just were not into this trip. Maybe it was that we hadn't had enough prep time, or that we had not had enough time to think and get excited about the trip with all that had happened in the past few months, or maybe we were not excited about the Keys !  We have heard some horror stories about $14.00 a foot dockage, waiting days for mooring balls and very shallow waters. We were also tired from working so hard to get ready to leave, we were ready to sell our boat at A VERY REASONABLE price. Jack and Linda were on Martini, Coy and Charles were on Makana, they had left on Saturday. John and Carolyn, our buddy boat from last year waited for us to leave on Monday. At one time we had told them they needed to go with or without us on Monday. As the day went on we were felling better about the trip. We needed a filter screen for our bilge pump so we were picking it up in St Augustine. George called and scheduled someone to look at our auto pilot also in St Augustine.

Got to the mooring ball in Fernandina at 5:00. Popped a cold one, stayed on the boat, and had left over pizza. NOW we were starting having some fun!