IRMA is gone, but … it delayed our condo purchase because a re-inspect of the condo is required … hurt us getting estimates for some minor repair issues from the survey on Apolonia required to settle her sale … so we are pushing forward with these two issues as we accept the gracious use of our friend Bonnie Scanlin’s condo in PGA Village. Nice place with cool AC. We’ll live through it. I think in two weeks we’ll have it all done and will plan our “move-to-Florida” celebration.
Apolonia and Paget came through the IRMA event unscathed. Apolonia was on the hard at Indiantown Marina. Paget was sheltered in Sebring, FL where we spend the hurricane’s passage in our friends George and Polly’s condo.
We brought Paget back from Sebring yesterday and parked her at Nettles Island Marina parking lot on her trailer. We visited with many of the live a boards, our friends, at the marina Tiki Hut for drinks. The marina walkways were destroyed and it will take a while to repair the marina for use, but luckily most boaters made it ok … Bruce in his 55′ Sport Fish Hatteras rode on the anchor in the ICW and after bouncing around was the first to tie up back at Nettles in one of the two available spaces … many others safely rafted in the north or south fork of the St Lucie River … several found slips or were hauled out as we were. Unfortunately a couple of the boats at anchor blew into the mangroves and the extent of the damage is unknown. However, we did drink to the fact that all people came through without issue.
Here is a look at the marina. Notice the missing walkways to get to the slips.
