Days 137 and 138 - Spiritus — Captain Father John

Miles cruised 0, fuel purchased $0, slip fee $53, daily high temperature 64*f

It rained most of the night on Saturday night and the temperature dropped about 10 degrees.

Sunday is the Super Bowl and Bev and Dave have invited us to watch the “Big Game” on their 44″ HD TV onboard Cloverleaf. We said YES! It was the perfect location to watch the Super Bowl.

Dale and Andy will get off the boat on February 9 – 16 to celebrate Andy’s decade birthday with family in Chicago. We had planned to find a slip in the Miami area when they booked their flights. Now we are in a marina that is almost within walking distance of the Ft Lauderdale Airport and they are flying out of the Miami airport. The Miami Boat Show created a slip shortage in the Miami area and we had to move to Ft Lauderdale. The irony is that we were able to get a slip in Ft Lauderdale because the boats at our marina went to be displayed at the Miami Boat Show. If we had stayed in Miami the slip fee would have been at least $150 per day. We have saved almost $100 per day for 21 days so I guess that will make up for a $35 Uber ride to the Miami airport.

This Marina has delightful heated pool

On this section of the river the manatees like the fresh water.

Remember our friend Eddie J the weather WAG. He is still guiding Loopers across the gulf. Loopers on the Florida Panhandle are experiencing night time low temperatures of 28*f. – “Unless you’re making a movie about disasters a sea, or searching for a way to end a marriage, do not try to cross the Gulf for at least the next four days!

A short weather-window is likely to materialize around Thursday or Friday that may allow Loopers to leave the Florida Panhandle.

Brain Clutter: Each of the winning team’s players of today’s Super Bowl will get $97,000. The losing team’s players have to make due with only $49,000 each. – Keep the bow spray off the bridge!

Eddy J. – aboard Spiritus, Grand Banks 36 Classic”

Our friends from Chicago Gabe and Angela will visit us tonight for docktails and dinner. They chartered my sailboat Blue Heaven last summer and are in Florida for two weeks looking for the right boat to sail around the world.

Bonus photo – boaters on the ICW enjoying the water around a sandbar.

Carl (Chef) Wooden – quote of the day;

Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot. – Margot Datz,

Margot Datz is an in-demand painter, illustrator, and mural artist based in Martha’s Vineyard. Her work has appeared in House and Gardens, Home Magazine, InStyle, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Publishers Weekly, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, and many regional publications, as well as CNN and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Dustin Hoffman bought her first piece of art. Other clients include Diane Sawyer, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, and Carly Simon. Datz has maintained a close creative affiliation with Carly Simon, designing and moralizing her nightclub Hot Tin Roof and her homes, and illustrating four of her children’s books, with Jacqueline Onnassis as editor.