What a wild ride

The last 48 hours have been crazy.  Wednesday morning we left anchor at the islands in Grant and started heading south, with Hazel on "Wave Dancer" about an hour ahead of us.  We figured on making it to Ft. Peirce.  Well that didn't happen.  Only about 45 minutes into our journey and the engine over heated to 240 degrees.  We turned around and back track to the nearest island and anchored, Hazel continued on.  Our first check showed no water in the fresh water coolant system for the engine.  After waiting a few hours to let the engine cool down enough to work on it we tried just filling it with about 6 gals of water.  Every time we filled, it just ran right out.  Finally we found a broken hose clamp just under the tank where is goes into the cycling system.  Changing the hose clamp did the trick, by this time it was about 3pm so we just spent a lovely evening anchored behind the third island. (this looks like a nice place for future pirate scrambles. the island is clean and big enough for good NE coverage).  Hazel made her way down to Vero Beach Marine and grabbed a mooring for the night.
Thursday we had NW winds 12knots gusting to 20.  We sailed almost all the way to Ft. Pierce, cruising at 5-5.5 knots.  1430 Hrs we made it to Harbor Town to top of Diesel and Water.  This was during low tide and we had to wiggle our way to the fuel dock.  After filling up, we headed back out going south to anchor at Jensen Beach.  The water level was an extreme low tide, due to the full moon. We hit bottom several times in the middle of the channel but made it through, slowly.  AFter anchoring we enjoyed a beautiful sunset.  Hazel sailed down about 2 hours a head of us.  She ended up having to sail into anchor, due to a broken hydrolic line on her outboard steering cable.
Friday 0130 (1:30am),   We were awoke by load banging noices from the anchor and I felt like we were healing over.  The wnds had picked up to 28-30knots in the middle of the night.  Kevin thought our snubber had broke lose from the anchor chain and was being knocked around.  We got up just as our phones rang.  It was Hazel asking where we were , that she could not see us.  Well we couldn't see her either.  The snubber did come off the chain and had caught around our anchor ball. It then procedded to pull the anchor lose every time we had a could gust of wind.  We found our selves on our side on a 3ft. shoal and the wind was pushing us farther up on it.  So Boat Us to the rescue.  He arrived around 0300 and pulled us off.  We were pulled off about 30 minutes later and were able to re-anchor and finally settle down around 0400.  It was definately a wild ride.  We plan to stay here in Jensen Beach, till the winds shift and then we will venture a little farther south.   The snubber is not being  used for the next few days.