In the morning it was slightly less cold and we got moving after 10a. We had just an average length day scheduled to get to an anchorage in Cocoa Beach.
When we got to the anchorage we were a little creeped out by the fact there were no other boats there, given that it was so crowded last summer. There was just one lonely mast sticking out of the water just north of where we had anchored before. We anchored and seemed to be set well. We had prodigious amounts of Heather's excellent spaghetti and drifted off into a carb induced coma.
The anchor alarm went off a little before midnight, as they are wont to do. We had a nice smiley face track pattern of us swinging at the anchor back and forth due to the conflicting wind and current until just before the alarm went off. In the last half hour we had drifted directly up from the smiley face, where we were now starting a new smile. A check of the tide table showed the tide had just turned and we had drifted to the opposite side of our swing range. I had set the anchor location in the app a bit off center and we had drifted just outside the alarm radius. In the app I moved the anchor closer to the center of our two smiles and we were good for the rest of the night.
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