Two days by sea

Ponce Inlet Light
We departed Miami in hopes of going offshore during a great weather forecast. We opted to take the Government Cut in the Port of Miami as our way out into the North Atlantic. We were faced with very high seas as the current was running out of the inlet against the wind. We battled the seas because it would have been worse to try to turn the boat around and take the brunt of it on the beam. The wave period was just too short to do anything about it! We were optimistic that things would improve dramatically as we could see the ocean was peaceful outside of the inlet. Sure enough things looked better in a short time!
We turned to the north and had a very pleasant night at sea. We were able to hop into the Gulf Stream and ride it to make our all time fastest speed of 10 knots! We decided that the conditions were so good that we'd sail up as far as we could all reasonably handle to avoid the bridges of South Florida. The wind came and went and we spent some of the time motor sailing when the wind peetered out. We opted to sail past Cape Canaveral and make a reach for Ponce Inlet. At one point, I was taking a nap below when I woke to the kids and Jason shrieking about something! They were pointing at the sky and shouting that a rocket just flew by! They couldn't believe that I didn't hear the blastoff! The NASA folks must have been shooting something up into space!
We realized that we needed to spend another night at sea to reach Ponce Inlet. We didn't want to navigate the inlet in the dark and needed to manipulate our speed to avoid arriving too early. We had some shifty wind and variable winds that night as well as varying seas. We were all really ready to get ashore for some crew liberty! We have our sights set on St.Augustine!