The month of April brought on alot of projects, the biggest was installing Davits for the dinghy. All projects needed to be complete before we set off for our 30 day sail. May 1 rolled around and we left the marina and headed south for Boca Grande. Our destinations were somewhat undesided after Boca. We sailed the first day out to Egmont Key and stayed a couple of days, exploring and swimming and just getting into the cruising mode. We left Egmont after a few days and headed south offshore towards Boca Grande arriving about 14hrs later. It was just getting dark when we arrived and went up to Useppa Island and anchored. We ended up staying off Useppa for about two weeks, we went exploring each an every day, some days to the some of the many barrier islands and many days to the Tunnel of Love. After about two weeks we moved over to Pelican Bay and stayed their for another week and a half. Here we went to Cayo Costa beach almost every day and then to the Tunnel of Love every other day or so it seemed. So after a restful three and a half weeks we decided to head back north, had to be back by June 1. So an early morning departure and off we went sailing north back to Egmont Key. At first it was a nice sail for about 15 miles then the wind change and freshened out of the wrong direction, NW. and we were going north, so the motor was started and was not shutoff for just over 28 hrs. We were having very confused seas hitting the bow, a strong breeze and current all against us as we proceeded north. Once I rounded southwest channel entrance at around 0300 the wind shifted to the east at abut 18mph and naturally I was now going East, just couldn't win. Finally arrived back at the marina around 0730. After I got My Lady Too secure at the dock, I went to bed after being awake for more than 25 hrs. Next time I will break up the passage into more frequent stops since we are just coastal cruising.
Until next time..............fairwinds. CHECK OUT SAILING STUFF FOR SALE ON EBAY AT "OCEANSAIL36".
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