Vero Beach FL is known by cruisers as Velcro Beach because…..
The city marina has 57 mooring balls and they double and even triple boats on them so they are very rarely completely full. They have great facilities. Nice showers and laundry room. You can drop off your propane tank and pick it up full the next day and the dinghy dock has water at it to fill jugs so you can fill the water tanks on your boat. The beach is a 10 min walk from the marina but there is a FREE city bus that stops at the marina. So getting to the beach or grocery store or boat store or restaurants or really almost anywhere is easy. Thus it is called Velcro….lots of people get here and never leave for the winter. Oh and it is 75 to 80 degrees all winter!!!
We have found it a great place to sit out some windy weather and wait for parts to come in to fix our alternator/regulator. We went in to the office to get one of the parts that came in and couldn’t believe how much mail there was….the guys that work in there said they told the UPS driver they were building a boat one part at a time. It sure looked like it!
On Saturday there is a huge farmers market with everything from home made sausage to hand made wooden chairs and everything in between! We wandered past every tent just looking and enjoying the sunshine. We crossed the street to see what the conditions looked like out on the ocean and the red flag was flying! Really rough seas out there….so it’s ok to stay velcroed here for a little longer!!
He quieted the sea with His power