St. Augustine to Titusville

I left St. Augustine Saturday morning, and had a delightful motorsail down to an anchorage in a cut that had been chiseled out of the shoreline to give access to a cement plant, now closed. It was a secure, very well protected place, with a little turning/swinging basin at the end. My new friends Hans and Laura, with their dog, Wilbur, joined me. We had a pleasant evening on their Island Packet Catamaran, Knotty Cat.

The next night I paid the (relatively) big bucks to stay in the downtown Daytona marina. I went to a sports bar to watch the Super Bowl, ate some bad bar food and went back to Harvey at the half. Still don't know who won, but I bet it aint Pittsburg! Daytona is a disturbingly depressed place, with every 3rd. storefront vacant, and many signs proclaiming bank foreclosure sales.
FYI, the hot tip for a marina in Daytona is the 7 Seas, far from town, but only 2 blocks to the beach.

Today I got an early start and had 6 very pleasant hours of motorsailing in progressively warmer temps, then a cold front came in and things got ugly. Howling winds, I guess 25+, dead on the nose, rain, and rapidly falling temperature. I made it into Titusville, but it took me 2 hours to make the last 5 miles.

I'm going to spend a few days here--they have an aircraft museum and a space exploration museum I want to go to, plus I need to change Harvey's oil, clean up, etc. I'll try to attach some photos of Harvey at St. Augustine, Knotty Cat, and an O'Day 20 I met while waiting for a bridge opening, with a young couple and a big dog living aboard--from New York.