At 7h30 am, we pass through the Cape Canaveral lock: a very slow affair for a couple of inches! Nothing to compare with the Erie canal! Then there is the bridge and we finally start motoring between the sea buoys…the east wind is not strong but dead on. There is a large shoal around which we must sail around and it takes almost 2 hours before we can head North. But for such a distance…it does not really matter! The winds remain East-South East 10-15 until 3am…by then, we have reached the Gulf Stream (40 miles offshore) and we have a speed up to 8 knots! Ah! It is fun to sail with that speed!