Vero Beach to Hilton Head
Now that was a good week of travel! We departed Vero Beach on Monday at dawn with a forecast of 15 to 20 knot winds, but from the East so it would be on our beam, and the relatively protected Indian River would not provide much fetch to pick up significant wave action. As it turned out, the wind was more like 12-14 and that is a materially different sea state, with not much more than a light chop. It was cool though, and this was the first day since November that we steered from inside all day. We had thought we might only get as far as Melbourne, but with the good conditions, we pushed on for Cape Canaveral area, which was a 50 mile run for the day. There aren’t a lot of great marina choices in the area so we thought we would try something new. It looked good on their website. Bad choice. Worst marina ever. We arrived about 3 and we didn’t have much choice about moving on so decided to stay. The marina manager had said that the docks were new, which is usually a good thing