Day 378 - Miami

It is now 6:00 in the morning. Our ship has been waiting for high tide outside the port of Miami for a while already. The crew emptied the ballast tanks to lift the body out of the water. The captain told me this would shorten our wait time by 2 hours.

Around noon we were authorized to proceed. The ship followed a long water channel through the downtown area, passing under several draw bridges until we reached the docking site of the Trans Caribbean Line. The other two ships, the Mar Freeze and Ultra Freeze, were already docked there.

Our campers were unloaded and smiled with solid ground under the wheels again! The engine started beautifully, but the wheels were stuck and wouldn’t move. It turns out that the rear brake drums were rusted entirely and stuck to the brake pads from the salt water. I had to remove the wheels and gently hit the drums with a hammer to loosen the pads.

We spent one more night in our ship cabins. There was no breeze, and it was relentlessly hot and humid.Read more