It seems like an eternity since our last posting about our adventure. Oh yeah, I should start by telling you this is not Elle but me, Dick. You read right. Surprised????? She will be doing the photography which she enjoys and I will try my hand at telling the tales.
We have spent the entire winter in Ft. Lauderdale which was not the original plan. Lots of things happened which I will tell you about but hopefully not bore you. Got to our dock on the New River the end of December, 2011 and left today, April 1, 2012. Why,you ask???
I was having some problems with my left leg and after some X-Rays and an MRI they said I needed surgery to clean out my shredded Meniscus and drain a Baker's cyst which was initially causing my problem. The surgery went fine in Jan and after a few weeks started special PT to reduce the swelling. OK, let's make this short. Still having some problems but OK to continue traveling. Had a great nurse (Elle) taking care of me.
That took care of January, February and the better part of March. While doing all of this we started to do some house hunting. We have been talking about the possibility of having a land base. Well guess what, we found a lovely home and closed on it a couple of weeks ago. Stayed there to kind of get acquainted for a couple of weeks and closed it up for the summer. We have a great house sitter, Thanks Jerry!
Our plans are to attend an MTOA Rendezvous in Fernandina Beach the middle of April, then getting as far north as possible to attend 2 college graduations.
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| The New Garmin GPS Chartplotter |
Everything was running perfectly, we were making good time, and then the first mishap happened. All of a sudden heard a thump and felt the thump! Hit an underwater log right in the middle of the channel. Backtracked to the nearest marina and hopefully tomorrow we will be hauled out to check the prop and shaft.Have a shimmy at hull speed, so will continue when we know.Yes we know April Fools Day! Really?? Wish it was but ,alas, it is all true.......
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