November 5 & 6, Friday and Saturday:
More strong winds today, blowing 15 to 25 out of the NW. Plan A was to use the ICW to Titusville and watch the shuttle launch at 3 PM. This has been postponed several times already and was indeed put off again until at least Sunday. So Plan B is to head to the next inlet (the Ponce de Leon) south and head out for another offshore overnight to Fort Pierce. As this is 135 nautical miles we are planning our departure for 2PM so as to arrive at the inlet in daylight at 8AM tomorrow.
We will have to vector around the 3 mile security zone around Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, which the Coast Guard reminded everyone of, due to the impending shuttle launch. Fines of around a hundred grand were mentioned, just so we knew! We are planning on staying close to shore after that to limit the fetch the wind has to build up the waves as the NW wind will be angling somewhat offshore.
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