Summer Storage and Heading Back to Illinois
4-9-17 Today we left Sunset Bay Marina and traveled a whole 9 miles west on the St. Lucie Canal to the St. Lucie Lock Campground and Marina. Needless to say Karen and I had no need to get an early start. We will miss the marina and Stuart Florida, as we have good memories and look forward to returning someday. Stuart has easy access to hardware, marine and grocery stores, it also has a great little downtown area with lots of restaurants. Our trip down the canal went well with me, of course trying to sail Mango as much as possible, which today was very little due to narrow channels and high trees. We did putter along nicely getting the assistance of a rising tide. We arrived at the St. Lucie Lock timing it perfectly with the lock master. Mango motored into the open lock and within 15 minutes Mango was raised 13 feet and motored out. The Army Corps marina is 100 yards away from the lock so we did a drive by of the 6 slips of the marina to see which slip woul...