Departure on South Florida Circumnavigation

Launched Pecan a couple days ago at the Eau Gallie causeway boat ramp in Melbourne, and brought Pecan to the dock behind our house for final provisioning and filling up the water tanks. Left Satellite Beach at 1:18pm after Tamara completed some last minute errands. For this trip we'll be going a whole lot slower than our trip thru Canada. Today we ran at 5.2 knots; Yamaha 150 doing 1400rpm. After 25 nautical miles we anchored near Sebastian just outside the ICW channel. 50F, partly sunny and winds north at 5 knots.

Anchored off one of the many spoil islands.

We stitched 1/2" tubular nylon webbing pieces to the anchor chain to make it easy to gauge how much to pay out, depending on depth we're to anchor in. We have a bit over 130 feet of chain; here's the chain marker legend:
1 tag - 25 feet
2 tags - 50 feet
3 tags - 75 feet
4 tags - 100 feet
1 tag colored red - 125 feet (even if the red color wears off, or gets caked with mud, we'll know that after seeing the 4 tags then next one would be this one)

These webbing pieces run thru the windlass just fine.