Fort Pierce Florida

The ride down from Cocoa beach was great. We sat in shorts and Tees soaking up sun within the enclosure while sailboaters wore the winter garb again. Today we traveled 60 nm. and arrived at 2:30. At this point the wind decided to pick up to about 20 knots with gust higher still. All while we were docking. There was quite a bit of radio chatter between the dock master and myself because they were trying to squeeze us into a very tighbt slip here at the Fort Pierce City Marina. We settled with landing at the fuel dock to fill up first and then we all chatted a bit.
A solution was arrived at where we would move backwards spin the boat around and wind up in a slip bow in from where we were on the fuel dock.
Easy eh?
Try it some time without bow thrusters. The dock hands just started rolling their eyes knowingly given the situation. But we did it fine, and they all smiled when I said (Ray you out there?) "We don't need no stankin' bow thrusters". Everyone else that pulled in needed them and slapped away at the poles.

On the fun side we were followed by the dolphins today for what must have been 30 miles. I left a clip of them in action next to the boat. I dare anyone to deny these two were not having fun!