Starting Mileage (This Trip): 421.9 NM
Last night’s anchor art. ESE wind.7:03
Sprinkles of rain. Got up to close forward hatch above me and get binoculars from cockpit. Then lounge around in v-berth.
Looking up in the v-berth.7:40
On and off light rain. I see this headline on the weather site:
…but this is what we have here:
8:21
Okay, enough screwing around, make some breakfast already!
10:00
Okay, enough breakfast, make sail already!
10:45
Okay, been screwing around with the Canon camera connect app. (Ugh!!!) But I don’t think I’ll have a problem making 6 knots today.
12:29
Out Channel 5… This is not Seven Mile bridge, this is higher up the Keys. It was the first and only place I could get out of the ESE wind and waves coming from Biscayne Bay.
14:00
All early afternoon I chased s/v Life of Reilly before finally catching up with them. Then the wind settled down a little and they passed me. (They were motoring, I was sailing.)
Seas were 4 feet on the port quarter. We slewed around a good bit in the following/quartering sea.
15:45
Came into Boot Key channel still under jib and hailed Debbie at Marathon Fuel Dock on VHF 16. Kept half of jib up until I got close. (“Belt and suspenders!” I was below “E” on fuel when I checked this morning.)
Good thing it’s a sailboat! Put 31.48 Gal of diesel in the tank, then fooled about trying (and finally succeeding) to get backed into Slip 10, with help of Debbie, and Barry from motor yacht __________ in Slip 9.
17:45
Aaaahhhhhh…! That is all.
