Day 192 - Sebastian Inlet — Captain Father John

Miles cruised 55, fuel purchased $0, slip fee $93, daily high temperature 75°f

The winds were N 15 – 20 mph so we had a slight chop, maybe 1 – 1.5 feet on the nose. It was a straight shot for 55 miles to the Cocoa Village Marina in Cocoa, Florida. We barely had to turn the autopilot knob all day.

Photo of Dan Carlson as he took the aerial photo of CL from the Hutchison bridge.

There was a tragedy on the ICW at the Sebastian Inlet. A small homemade pontoon boat with four passengers capsized at the entrance. They were going with the wind and waves and then turned due east into the inlet. They took the wind and the waves on their beam and flipped over. A 70 year old man, not wearing a life jacket, was trapped under the deck and drowned. Several smaller boats went to their rescue immediately. We had passed by the inlet a short time earlier.

We were invited to dinner at Andy’s nephew’s house. Chris and his wife Jen, daughter Teagan and son Landon live only five miles from the Cocoa Village marina. We had a wonderful chicken dinner with strawberry shortcake for dessert.

Landon played the drums for us.

Bonus photo

Carl (Chef) Wooden – quote of the day.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein German: 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics(alongside quantum mechanics). Einstein’s work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed “the world’s most famous equation”). He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “services to theoretical physics”, in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory.