Inside on ICW watching depth or Outside on N. Atlantic close to shore in higher seas?

I just added a new page on the blog: "Recommended places" that will include places we found especially fun in different cities,  also parking options if you have a car, and dog places if you have a dog.  "Marinas and anchorages" is the most visited page.  I keep adding to "boat words" as I use one that seems to crave definition, like maybe I'll explain why boats have zincs.

This was one of the 8 bridges we passed through as we motored down the ICW from Daytona Saturday.  This is a RR bridge that stays up almost all the time.  Other times we call the bridge tender on the VHF, "This is sailing vessel Shawnee requesting an opening."

We came into the slip Saturday late afternoon and tied up.  (Titusville Municipal Marina $1.44/' a night with Boat US discount.)  We can plug-in and can use our new heater. I must say it is much warmer here and less need for it.  Mazu loves a tie up.

We walked into a cruisers Saturday night pot luck that was fun with so many friendly people.  Good party. They are planning to do them monthly at Titusville.

DO NOT PAT, FEED OR GIVE WATER TO MANATEES.  Of course we all want to pat the manatee.  They love fresh water.  These signs are everywhere, but we fail to see them.  Seen a few dolphins.


Sunday night saw the Seahawks and Patriots play it out on the Arizona field for Superbowl XLIX (49) with a rousing, suspenseful interception at the goal line by the Patriots to save them from defeat in the last 30 seconds of the game!  [I hear next year the NFL isn't going to  use Roman Numerals because it would just be L.]  We watched at Dixie Crossroads Bar on a big screen TV by ourselves until the bar closed before the end of the game.  We walked 20 minutes back to the marina and finished the game with 4 people gathered around a tiny TV on a screen porch. 
  During the day today Drew looked at the auto pilot that had been rattling and tightened things up.  This did require emptying the entire cockpit locker and placing everything all over the cockpit and taking out all the tools in the salon occupying every surface there as well.  I read.

Monday:  We need to decide how to proceed south.  There's 15 to 20 k winds today with seas to 6', a spot of rain and spotty blue skies.   That's rather our limit - 6.'  If we go out it will only be 36 hours on the water to Miami (200 miles) v. 4  eight hour days.  Not sure yet.  Mazu always votes for the least amount of time on big waves.  I always want to try to sail, but I can't remember the last time we unfurled a sail; sometime in November I believe for a few minutes on our way to St. Augustine.  We say we don't want to sail on a schedule but even without people to meet or things on land to do we are scurrying to avoid weather or forced to catch a weather window that only lasts a few days. Or if it isn't weather it's repairs to attend to at a certain marina.

   Slow going today except for the diver who came and cleaned the bottom of the boat  - $60 for an hour and half underwater.  "Wasn't too bad," he said, and he also replaced the prop zinc that was worn down to the nub and loose.  Here's Drew, Mazu and the diver with his baby stroller full of fins, hose, scrapers, and one air tank.  I worked on this blog.