Sun Spirit

  Sun Spirit is back at our home marina in Green Cove Springs. The last couple of days of the journey were fairly uneventful - thank goodness as we have had enough drama this year. In St. Augustine we had an electrician come to check our batteries. He and his wife and son have lived on their boat full time for 10 years - anchored in the St. Augustine area. We had the feeling that they do this not for the lifestyle (although they do like it) but more for financial reasons - no rent or mortgage - just boat repairs and upkeep. You see a lot of liveaboards in Florida for this reason. We gave them the wind generator that was on our boat as we have never used it and wanted to take it down so we can move the solar panels to a better location. Now that we are back in our home port there is lots of work to do to get the boat ready to be lifted out of the water and stored on land until we return. When that’s done we’ll hop in the car and head home. Looking forward to seeing our family and fr...

We were on our way to St. Augustine on Monday,  having a very pleasant day on the ICW when we misjudged a buoy and just like that we were aground. We tried to reverse the boat a few times to no avail. We finally called Tow Boat U.S. for a tow (we thankfully had purchased a membership). They are like the CAA on the water. Turns out that they were extremely busy that day and couldn’t get to us until 4 pm - a couple of hours after we called. By the time the gentleman came the tide was going down so we had to wait for it to come up before he was able to tow us off what we think was a sandbar. By that time (7 pm) it was too late to make it to our planned destination. Luckily there was a spot we could anchor close by, so we did, had dinner and went to bed. We arrived in St.Augustine this morning and we were able to arrange for an electrician to come and look at our batteries which we think are not quite charging the way they should. We’ll stay tomorrow and then head out on Thursday to th...