Wow, what a great day! We left the marina in Melbourne this morning and dropped anchor in Fort Pierce this evening. Overall a nice day but a bit cool, in the upper 60’s, wind howling.
We fired up the watermaker to see if it really works…and it does!! Our homemade watermaker actually makes pure water!! Here it is putting out 40 gallons per hour (the flow meter on the right):
Drinking water should have less than 500 PPM or parts per million of TDS or total dissolved solids, our water has 99 ppm and it’s delicious:
As we were getting south the water turned from brown to green. Couldn’t capture it as well as we wanted but the water is beautiful and warm, 72 degrees:
We dropped anchor in Fort Pierce and found our friends here. Friends on the radio, friends on the phone:
Beautiful sunset:
It’s soooo nice to be back on the boat and headed south!!
The wind is blowing 20-30 through tomorrow and we are in a nice anchorage so we are staying put until Sunday. All is well and we are having fun!!!
Congratulations on your first “water”. That was the one thing I had on my list but since I didn’t go anywhere that I could not get water easily is wasn’t necessary. Also great to read about your adventure again. Talk to you guys soon.
Love ya!
The watermaker is going to make life so much easier! It is so nice to be back on the boat…in relatively warm weather…
glad to hear all is well…you can bet i am thinking about you and your 72 degrees! love