on the ICW anchored north of Twin Bridges in Daytona

After 50 miles today over 8 hours we slid into an anchorage at 4:30 thanks to Mark and Diana Doyle's On the Water Guides - anchorages.  We aren't big on anchoring, but with team work and encouragement we made it into an 8' anchorage for the night.  We  immediately ate our homemade tacos for dinner.
    Yesterday before we left, Drew installed the impeller, thankfully, since here is the old damaged one. 

What can happen is that the rubber bits can disintegrate and clog the engine so it just stops.  The impeller keeps raw ocean water running through the engine to cool it through the heat exchanger, that cools the exhaust and exits the exhaust pipe.  That's the water you see going out the back of boats.  It's essential to keeping the engine running. It's essential maintenance.
   While he was working I did errands with Mazu.  First we went to the ONLY place in town to get a real latte, Kookabura, right on the main square.  We stopped at a pocket park with a statue of St. Francis. Not sure how old it was.
 

St. Augustine, founded by the Spanish in 1565, had a major catholic population.  There was a poem inscribed on a plaque.
  
  Lord, Make me an instrument of your peace...
  Where there is hatred let me sow love...
  Where there is injury pardon...Where there is doubt faith...
  Where there is despair hope...where there is darkness light...
  And where there is sadness joy.
      ~ St. Francis of Assisi 

I picked up a T-shirt I mail ordered at the Black Raven mail service store.  It's to celebrate freedom of the press and my dad's life work as a newspaper publisher.
    

One of the major errands of the day was to buy anything that could calm Mazu down during passages, to figure out how to get her not to shake and pant on the boat when we take a trip.  It's weird because we can go in the dinghy with the motor on, run the engine on Shawnee or even take it out and around and she's fine. But when we are out for a while she just shakes.  So today we tried Benedryl that someone said would make her sleepy, calming treats, and a collar that gives off pherenomes that smell like what a dog that's just had puppies gives off for 3 days to calm her puppies.  Don't you wonder how vets captured that on a dog collar?   Well, she shook and panted most of the day, but not all of it.  We'll have to decide if she can continue cruising with us.
    Just finished a good book today by Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures, essays he wrote in the New Yorker also finished an Irish novel, Nora Webster by Colm Tolbin.
  On to Titusville tomorrow morning, for another 50 miles.  We'll stay a couple of days for a diver to clean the disgusting bottom of the boat after 2 months sitting in St. Augustine harbor, and be American and watch the Super Bowl.  Go Pats.