Update

The strategy for the way home is to wait for good weather (tail wind, sun, fair tides) and hammer it.  So from Vero we went 54 miles to Cocoa, 68 miles to Daytona and 51 miles to St Augustine averaging better than 6.5 knots.  Pretty good.

Now we're waiting out a stiff north wind and cold weather.  We'll leave Sunday.  There are 8 states to traverse before our beloved Vermont.  We'll knock off Florida on Monday.

Sitting at our mooring ball yesterday we were thrilled to see another Lord Nelson approach.  Hull #5, Miss Willoughby, owned by Beau and Mariah Hicks from Urbanna, Virginia.  Hope we get to spend some time with them before we head north.  They're hanging out here for a couple of months.  She looked real good.  Built in 1983, repowered with a 150 horse Yanmar in 2010.  Brightwork was Cetol and it actually looked pretty good.