Choice Fantasy

Titusville, FL

28 37 .54 N 080 48.41

We made a short day of it today. There are no good anchorages between Titusville and Ponce de Leon Inlet. We might not have gotten to Ponce before dark. Instead, we elected to anchor at Titusville just after 12 noon.

I'll use the time to try to fix our new autopilot (more on that later).

The wind is very strong. NNE at 20-30. It was great for sailing up here close hauled. We did 6-6.8 knots the whole way. We fantasized about being on the outside. We said that we could have left Fort Pierce yesterday and arrived at Beaufort NC tomorrow. It's all bogus though. Such a strong NNE wind would probably make it miserable out in the Gulf Stream and eventually we would have had to turn NE, directly into the wind. Still, fatasizing is fun.