Category: Log

Log posts for vessel While One.

2021-12-28 Loggerhead Marina, Holywood Florida

We spent the day at Holywood Loggerhead Marina, taking it easy and finishing up putting away the boat stuff we brought from our prior boat, Farraige.

While One has 2 120V/50A shore power inlets. One is dedicated for the AC and the other for everything else. Two shore power cables were provided with While One. However, most slips only have a single 50A outlet.

Leading up to our trip, I reached out to Nico requesting a list of things I should buy in order to enable staying on the boat for a few days. One of these items was a 10 lb LPG tank. The other was an EEL pigtail adapter which I purchased. However, what Nico should have told me to buy was an EEL Y adapter. So, after walking to Walmart to pick up a few items for the boat (cleaning supplies and groceries we had forgot), Sherine and I jumped in a Lyft to go to West Marine. They were kind enough to let us return the previously purchased adapter and buy the Y adapter instead…for a difference of about $200!

Anyway, after taking a Lyft back, we were now able to simultaneously run AC and power the rest of the boat.

A mobile fuel service also visited the marina and asked if we needed fuel which we did. We had left Coral Gables with about 50% in both tanks. We filled While One to about 85% capacity.

2021-12-27 Coral Gables to Holywood Marina

We met Nico at Alex’s house at 10am. While One were sitting at a private slip on one of the fingers of Coral Gables. Nico and Nick were doing something on the mast when we got there.

We quickly unloaded my car onto the driveway so Sherine could take off to the grocery store to buy food for the next 4 days. For the next several hours Sam, Don unloaded the Buick Enclave and moved all of the stuff (quite a bit of it) onto While One.

We didn’t push off until around 1pm when Sherine finally made it back from the store and all groceries had been unloaded and put away.

We motored up and thru Biscayne Channel, then turned North. About mid-way up, Nico brought out the jib on a starboard tack. We were making 9 knots through the water, but I believe we were in 1-2 knots of current.

We made the entrance of Port Everglades around 6pm. After three bridges: Dania Beach Blvd, Sheridan Street & Holywood Beach Blvd we passed the South Lake Anchorage and then turned into the marina. It was dark. Nico was at the helm for most of the ways. We took slip 227 under dark.

Mid-way up I noticed the engine hours for both engines were at 24 hours.