Bell Ringer

Day #17: While being passed by a comparable sized American Tug yesterday, I opened the Dutch door, leaned out, smiled, and waved a jaunty hello. In response a hand, divorced from any semblance of a human body, appeared through a small aperture in their wheelhouse door and waved back. I had to chuckle--it might as well have been a bobble-head hand. The LNVT's Dutch door not only facilitates friendly gestures but definitely gets cool points too.

Nellie's ship's bell is mounted just forward of the starboard Dutch door. Winds over 20 knots can cause it to ring. Today it's performing a solo rendition of Flight of the Bumblebee while Nellie and her mooring ball dance the Jitterbug. Windy? Yea! Sustained winds over 30kts. Other than a 0300 mooring line reposition, today was a down day. Much needed I may add.

In a very windy and rocky mooring field in St Augustine, FL. 0nm today and 825nm total. DBH