Miami Beach

Ran 24 nautical mile south to Miami Beach. Anchored off South Beach area, just north of the Venetian Causeway, in 11 feet of water at 12:50pm. 65F and winds NW 8 knots. Clear.

Ft. Lauderdale

Still in Ft. Lauderdale today. Ran up New River a good number of miles to the west of I-95/I-595/SR-84. Afterward getting back to the ICW, we headed south past Port Everglades ship terminal area and went west in the Dania Cutoff canal. The New River and the Dania Cuttoff canal are connected--as you can see in the aerial photo above--but we don't know what the water depths are to the west of where we went nor if there are bridges with less than an air draft of 8.5 feet or so. I guess we should have kept going and found out! Upper 60s and winds NW5 knots.

Fort Lauderdale

Reached Ft. Lauderdale's Lake Sylvia anchorage at 4pm. Stopped at 15th street launch ramp docks to visit stores ashore. Ran 25 nm. 60sF and winds NW10 knts


The Lake Sylvia anchorage, as you can see, is fairly small and has homes all around and no place to go ashore unless you don't mind trespassing.

Boca Raton

Visited Peanut Island in West Palm Beach (right at the Lake Worth ocean inlet) and Spanish River park on the way to Boca. Anchored along ICW at 4:50pm in 3.5 feet west of R"60" in Boca. Ran 29 nm. today.

North Palm Beach

Anchored in North Palm Beach's old port cove anchorage in 17 feet at 1:12pm. Ran 28 nm today. Was 41F this morning; winds NW15 knots.


Hobe Sound bridge opening for big motoryacht.

Port Salerno

34 nautical mile run to Port Salerno's Manatee Pocket (next to Stuart). Anchored at 1:52pm in 5 feet off Pirate's Cove Resort/Marina. 54F, sunny, winds 15W-NW. Ran between 4.8 to 5.5 knots at 1,400 rpm.


Pecan at anchor. In the background you can see Hinckley's Florida service center and a nice Nordhaven 47 at their docks.

Vero Beach

Anchor up at 8am; Tied up at 10:30am at Vero Beach municipal boat launch ramp dock located in a protected basin just north of the Barber bridge. All public mooring balls in use; I guess this is where a lot of cruisers spend the winter. Short run of 12 nautical miles today. There's a strong cold front moving in tonight. 55F, cloudy/rainy, N 10kts.


Boat ramp basin; we're on the left off screen.

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.

Pecan Projects 1 - LCD monitor, Solar hot water heater, Radar installation

LCD HDTV installation.


Dynex (from Best Buy) 19 inch LCD HDTV/Monitor shown 'driven' from Asus netbook. One nice thing about the 10 inch netbook is that it will configure via function keys to operate at higher screen resolutions than 800x600. Here it's running at 1024x768. Not shown is USB Logitech trackball off the screen to the lower right.