After much heartache and discontent with Al's Mobile Marine, 11 days after he had left our boat with our engine parts in hand, he finally came back with the replacement parts. He quickly had the drive gear installed and our old, rebuilt pump bolted on. The new pump we had bought in Dinner Key was also rebuilt and ready to act as a spare. The engine was repaired by 9a, and we departed NSB before 9:30p for parts north. Heather wasn't going to make her flight to Arizona and we were late getting up to Brunswick, but at least we were on our way. Despite our late start we made it almost all the way to St. Augustine, founded in 1565.
We anchored just a few miles south of StA after inching our way to the back of the anchorage. Our problem was too much water rather than too little. We finally dropped the anchor and felt it grab hard on the mud bottom.
There wasn't much around so we stayed on the boat and had dinner, then called it a night pretty early. We had an even longer day scheduled for tomorrow.
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