At last!!

Photos will follow but Zingaro is at last floating alongside Sweet Tides at the Ortega Landing Marina! The damage was much less than expected. No need to touch the cutlass bearings. However since we had ordered them we kept the extra set just in case! 

The whole ordeal was that the strut that holds the shaft is lodged inside the hull in a fiber casing that got loose with the vibration and that is where the water was coming in from. It has now been fixed and everything seems to work. Of course the original propeller we put back in is not half as efficient as the the other one but hopefully it will take us safely to the Bahamas.

The faulty propeller is being sent as we speak to the manufacturer, we'll see what they say. 

The rest of the day today will be laundry, grocery store, errands and tomorrow morning the adventure will continue. We have a bridge to get through in downtown Jacksonville with restricted hours and a very shallow Ortega River. So we will have to make sure we go out in high tide.

Hopefully tomorrow night we will be writing from St. Augustine!!