9/15/15: Green Cove Springs, Fl – Beach Marina, Jacksonville, Fl.  48 NM

This morning we threw off the dock lines and are headed south. We will miss our home port of Green Cove Springs but the water calls us.

We first arrived at Green Cove on May 14 with intentions of spending only a few days then heading north to North Carolina.  But as the saying goes “Boat plans are written in sand.”  We had some work done at Holland Marina in Green Cove and when it was done we just never got a good extended weather forecast.  So we opted to stay and play some on the St. Johns River. Tricia & Hobby aboard Kristin Noelle joined us & we cruised all the way down the St. Johns to Sanford enjoying every minute of quiet anchorages and smooth waters.

Of course we pulled back into Tom Holland Marina to get a few more things done. After close inspection we decided to replace out motor mounts and our house batteries. Ouch to the pocket but necessary.

This is 4 of the 6 new batteries we installed.

New motor mounts.

 A big shout-out to Tom Holland Marina for always providing excellent service at a reasonable price. Again his crew fixed all our problems that other marinas either just flat out failed to fix or made worse. Sure wish he had a 2nd Marina on the west coast of Florida.