Day 2, April 8: Pelican Islands Yacht Club

It's a boat, so "Expect the unexpected."

Rested well until 2:30 a.m., but awoke with no air conditioning.  Dennis took off his captain’s hat and put on his mechanical engineer’s one to check it out.  Thankfully it’s easy to access in the main salon under the settee. After about 15 minutes he found a loose wire on the capacitor, and making a guess reconnected it. Bingo, good guess!  Probably came loose from being bounced around yesterday. Shortly back to bed, and slept until 6:00.

At night we try to plan out the next day, and our schedule for today was to leave Pelican at 9:00 and go to Naples Yacht Club, about 2 hours away.  But of course, plans are weather dependent.  Radar indicated this one needed revision with showers coming in from the Gulf.  After checking with the dock master to see if we could stay another night, were glad to hunker down here.  The rain wasn’t real severe, but the winds were about like yesterday, so the change was right.  Thankfully with the club open tonight it’s a short walk over for dinner.

After leaving home early yesterday morning and our rough ride, it was good to have a day to regroup, clean floors, change out a bilge pump and inspect front running light, reload some charts, and rearrange the refrigerator. 

We call living on a boat, “Living large in small spaces,” and some days it’s challenging.  For us, attempting to keep up with routines much like home helps: coffee in the morning, stretching for both, exercising with bands and/or weights, if docked, walking Lady as far as the weather and time permits, showers, lite lunches, dinner around 6:00. All of which keeps us active and healthy and hopefully sane.

Finished the afternoon with pool/hot, tub and shower time, then a lovely dinner at the club. Back to the boat for coffee, tea and some sweets. 

Tomorrow, leaving early on a short 13-mile trip, destination Naples Sailing and Yacht Club, with a stop before docking to refuel at Naples City Marina.  

Cooler temperatures blowing in means a comfortable night for sleeping without the air, and gentle wave action for rocking to sleep. 

God’s peace to you and yours.