Englewood

Heading up the ICW

After a couple of days relaxing in Cayo Costa we weighed anchor and headed up the coast to Englewood.  Jeff needed a hardware store.

Our beautiful new bow pulpit that we just had built last season is showing some delamination, which was disappointing and concerning.  We will have it repaired back in Canada but in the meantime Jeff figured we needed a snubber line to take some pressure off the bow pulpit while at anchor.

Luckily, we found an anchorage a few hours up the coast which would provide good protection from the growing East winds AND had a public dock right there with a hardware store across the street.  Perfect!  Jeff was able to get everything he needed to set up a snubber line on the anchor chain.  It works well and lets us sleep much sounder at night while at anchor.

We dinghied in to the local park to explore the town and maybe pick up some milk.  We weren't five minutes in when Jeff saw it.  There, parked ahead was an older, restored Mustang convertible, AND was that a for sale sign in the window!?  I tried to distract him but it was useless.  He called the number and the owner came out to show the car.  I continued my walk while Jeff popped the hood and drooled.  It's nice for sure, but the timing is all wrong for yet another toy.  He's still talking about it though.

We walked the main street and chatted to a few locals then headed back to the boat and settled in for a blissfully quiet night at anchor in the lee of the land, safely out of the wind.  Gran Vida lay still and quiet, without the familiar slap slap of the water hitting the hull that we've gotten so used to.  Ahhhh.