Day 138, Year 10: Key Biscayne Back to Dinner Key
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Weather: Still Sunny and Warm, Winds SE 10-15
Location: Dinner Key Marina Anchorage, Coconut Grove, FL
We made our way from Key Biscayne back to Dinner Key this morning. We took a little side trip from No Name Harbor out to Hawk Channel at low tide to lay a track and to make sure we wouldn’t go aground at one particularly shallow spot. When we do get a window to leave for the Bahamas, we will leave from No Name Harbor at 3 am. Now we have a track to follow and we know that we shouldn’t go aground. Detta and Tom had decided that they really wanted to help us install new steering cables, so Mark and Tom spent the afternoon doing that. Detta and I supported them by sitting in chairs on the deck and reading. They needed us out of the way, so we were forced into it! We feel terrible that Tom had to spend one whole day of his vacation working, but we are so grateful. Mark had made a temporary fix on one cable and today Tom found that the other cable was severely compromised. It could have broken at any time, but that is fixed now and we will be safe. Thanks and praises to Tom for doing the work and to Detta for insisting that we do it. And even though it was hard work, Mark and Tom seemed to really enjoy it. Tom and Detta fly home late tomorrow afternoon, so we will do a bit of relaxing on the boat tomorrow, head in for a late lunch, and then off to the airport in Fort Lauderdale. On Friday we will return to Fort Lauderdale for Mark’s treatment and scan and on Saturday we will officially start our wait time for that perfect weather for crossing the Gulf Stream. Lee and Lynda have been listening to the weather and they tell us it looks like we really might have to wait for two weeks. I’m hoping for a weather miracle.
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