From Cocoa Village, we moved up the ICW and anchored just north of the Canaveral Causeway Bridge, the prime spot for watching the upcoming Space-X satellite launch. By launch date, there were 4 boats anchored by us but there is plenty of room for hundreds of boats here.
We set up a Zoom meeting for both Chris and Greg's families to watch the nighttime launch with us and were all standing by when the launch was canceled one minute before lift-off.
The problem with rocket launches is there are quite often postponements and delays, including for bad weather since Space-X has to recover the rocket boosters offshore. As the bad weather moved in, we were now in an exposed anchor location and forced to leave the area.
While we were debating where we would move to, Sue noticed that the boat upwind of us was now very close to us. She contacted them on the radio and alerted them that they were dragging. The owners were just getting on deck and realizing they were dragging. They had been down below changing the oil (that must have been fun in the choppy 2ft waves). Apparently they must of had very little anchor chain out to be dragging as the winds were only 20-25kts.
We decided it was time to get underway ourselves and get out of their vicinity, so we headed up to Titusville. We stayed there a couple nights, moving from the south to the north side of the bridge as the winds shifted from north to south. When the north winds finally settled down, it was time to head further north, back to New Smyrna.
