Great
Loop II Date: 05/11/2015
Day #283 (Monday) 99.2 miles (3845 total miles)
Locks: 0 (30 total locks)
Bridges: 0 (4 total bridges)
Port #65: Fort Pierce, FL
Marina: Harbortown Marina
The clock gave us the wakeup call at
4:50AM. First morning light was evident
by 5:30AM. We left West End before
sunrise with 3 sailboats.
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| Sunrise over rolling following seas...a preview of the day. |
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| Seadeuce...one of our crossing buddies. |
Seas were rolling at 3 feet on our
portside quarter stern with a 4 to 5 second period between waves. All that combined gave us a constant
roll. Todd took a heading for Fort
Pierce to take advantage of the push from the Gulfstream. It also helped keep the rolling waves to our
stern. If he had taken us the shorter
distance to Lake Worth, the rolling would have been on our port beam and not
tolerable.
The constant rolling eventually took
its’ toll on both Todd and I. Vertigo
set in and stayed with us until the waves decreased about 10 miles from the Fort
Pierce Inlet. We tried peppermint candy,
ginger ale, cola drinks, salty carbohydrates and none of them settled that
constant queezy feeling. I had Dramamine
on board but Todd didn’t want to endure the side effects.
We both breathed a sigh of relief as
we entered the inlet and were formally stateside once again. Todd called Customs after we were settled in
our dock. The process was so easy with
our LBO cards. The Customs officer was
extremely nice and funny at times, calling me Paula Abdul.
The vertigo stayed with us
throughout the evening. We both went to
bed early and slept like logs.
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