Traveled the AICW today for the first time. It was as expected - slow, filled with no wake zones, and calm, very few boaters and only an occasional bad behaving boater. Fifty-mile trip took about 5 hours and burned about 33 gal. Clearly showing you can achieve greater fuel mileage if you go slowly.

We are in marina just off the inlet and the AICW. They have us on a dock filled with sailboats and in a slip with a very short finger. Barbara did a great job catching the bow piers and we settled in easily. I changed the secondary fuel filters today. It went exactly as Vinny, the mechanic near Key Largo, said it would. Key to the process is re-priming the fuel lines but Volvo Penta makes is easy with a built-in hand pump near the filters! I had bought a box load of filters (fuel and oil) while in N. Palm Beach. I feel like a real mechanic! Don’t know our plan yet for tomorrow. Admiral booked us for two days, but I think we should continue moving on. I’ll check the weather for tomorrow after dinner tonight and make our plans then. Our next really big stop is St. Augustine. From there we’ll probably keep moving up to HHI and Charleston. We’ve seen the GA coast and need to continue moving. Hopefully we can run the outside. Paint dries faster than the speed we were traveling today! Don’t know how trawlers can do it.

BTW - NPB and Old Port Cove is a marina to which we would return. Top class, good restaurant, and within walking distance to a great Italian market and West Marine!