Vero beach Marina cruiser community

While we continue to make repairs to our boat and prepare and provision the boat for travels south and then cross to the Bahamas, we continually engaged in social gatherings with other cruisers also moored on buoys at the marina.

Almost every night we attend another dinner with yet another cruiser couple or a few cruisers couples. Weekly there are social gatherings on shore too for more connecting. Most conversations evolve two topics – boats and boat systems and repairs and cruising locations and routes and anchorages. Some discussion about local boat and provisioning options too. We often play pickleball or bike or swim or walk to town to beach walk on the Atlantic.

Other days are busy with birthdays or yesterday we visited the botanical gardens in vero. Today the art museum offers their monthly free Saturday event.

We are doing various projects on the boat building an outside bed in the cockpit and electronics and battery issues and engine transmission issues and repairs with various techs.

Other cruisers have renamed this marina Velcro beach from vero beach as many cruisers get stuck here for a longer time than planned as there is so much to do and so many folks to meet.

Boat repairs have included hours looking at our battery storage and systems with multiple techs trying to diagnose our battery storage problems. Other chart plotter issues and autopilot. Everyone is helpful but often difficult to diagnose a problem with systems that are 24 years old.