{"id":1016,"date":"2016-12-28T18:42:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2016-12-28T18:42:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:42:32","slug":"we-have-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"We have arrived\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>13 December &#8211; Vero Beach &#8211; Fort Pierce, Florida<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1017 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1030213-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"p1030213\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1030213-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1030213-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1030213-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After a very short 2.5 hour motoring from Vero Beach we have arrived to Fort Pierce City Marina, Florida, which will be our December home base.\u00a0 Yes it is 2 weeks later than originally scheduled, but we made it safely, and relatively comfortably.\u00a0 Thankfully the marina was patient kept our reservation with all the changes we made over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Bob wasn\u2019t expecting much current today, and when the boat significantly slowed down for no apparent reason and the steering just felt a bit \u201cdifferent\u201d he feared we had once again snagged a crab pot. What are the chances of that happening again?\u00a0 The boat did pick up speed again after passing an inlet which would indicate that it was indeed current that had been slowing us down, but just to be safe we\u2019ll find a diver to suss it all out.<\/p>\n<p><i>When we arrived at the marina, a diver just happened to be working on a boat a few slips up from us, and was willing to dive our boat and see if were again dragging something.\u00a0 We were pleased to learn that this time there was no crab pot attached to the rudder, although the rudder was a bit looser than ideal.\u00a0 So, a new to do item to be added to our \u201cto do with our next haul out\u201d list &#8211; whenever that is.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1018 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1030215-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"p1030215\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1030215-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1030215-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1030215-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The weather was beautiful, and the water calm as we settled into our slip and met our neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Our cockpit overlooks the main fairway and we are able to watch dolphins, manatees, jumping fish, and of course the pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 660px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1016-1\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dolphins-in-Ft.-Pierce.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dolphins-in-Ft.-Pierce.mp4\">http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dolphins-in-Ft.-Pierce.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>This marina has not one but TWO on-site tiki bars \u2014- life is good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 December &#8211; Vero Beach &#8211; Fort Pierce, Florida After a very short 2.5 hour motoring from Vero Beach we have arrived to Fort Pierce City Marina, Florida, which will be our December home base.\u00a0 Yes it is 2 weeks later than originally scheduled, but we made it safely, and relatively comfortably.\u00a0 Thankfully the marina &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/?p=1016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We have arrived\u2026..<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dreamtime-sailing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}