We left the Lake Worth Anchorage around 7:00 this morning. It was the perfect stop on our way to Vero Beach. 

We had a few bridges that needed to be opened today. For Christmas Michael bought us a small white board to use on the boat, we write our bridges down for the day and erase them as we go. It’s super helpful to keep track of the names of them without having to look them up. We use it when docking too, we can draw out the slip and a plan of how to get in it and out when that time comes. So big shout out to Michael for the perfect Christmas present for us! 

We saw a few bright green golf courses, all looked like lots of fun and busy too. Lots of beautiful homes on the water as well, and many of them had small putting greens in their backyards. Jen made sure to send Michael pictures of all the pretty green courses. The ones up in Lubbock where he goes to school are on the browner side. He was very jealous.

We made it to Vero Beach with no issues, it was a pretty long day and we were all tired. We docked on the face dock, which used to be kinda intimidating but we’ve realized it’s not so bad. We plugged in the power and as soon as we turned on the A/C we tripped the breaker. There are new laws regarding the power on docks being newly renovated. The new GFCI breakers don’t seem to work with older boats. The NFPA updated codes for the electrical pedestals to trip at 30mA, lowered from the previous threshold of 100mA. When a leakage of 30mA or greater occurs, new pedestal breakers detect the imbalance within the electrical loop, and trip the pedestal, which stops the flow of current from leaking into the water. The NFPA updated codes for the electrical pedestals to trip at 30mA, lowered from the previous threshold of 100mA. When a leakage of 30mA or greater occurs, new pedestal breakers detect the imbalance within the electrical loop, and trip the pedestal, which stops the flow of current from leaking into the water.

They had the older kind of power on a different dock, so we started up the engines to move slips. We got into the new slip with no issues, except we had a dock hand who didn’t exactly know how to help us. He didn’t understand what a spring line was (a front and back spring line that are vital when docking as they prevent the boat from going forward or backwards). We kept drifting backwards and Kelly had to push us away from the dock well Jen tired to get a line lassoed around the pilings at the bow. It was a bit of a hot mess, but we got it all figured out. 

After docking we had a drink by the pool before Jen cooked us dinner. We watched Game of Thrones and called it a night.