Back in St. Pete

Oil

Well the oil spill has us firmly detoured to St. Petersburg. We will be keeping the boat here at a nice downtown marina til the oil spill has been cleaned up enough to get home. We will be renting a car tomorrow to head to Pensacola to take care of some business. Our trip is over for now. Back to reality!

Update

Just passing cayo Costa.  Headed to Venice tonight then on to st. Pete tomorrow. 

Naples

We are about 3 miles offshore of Marco island.  We had a quicker run across Florida bay this time.  God says we will be to fort myers beach by 6 am.  Night sailing is great what with how hot it has been during the day.  The water temp is up to 92 degrees. 

7 mile bridge

I still don't like going under bridges with 2 feet to spare.  65 foot bridge.  63 foot mast. 

North!

Well we are leaving the keys this morning.  We will take 20 hours or so to get to fort myers beach. 

Back in the USA.

We made it to key biscayne last night after a long slow gulf stream crossing.  We were fighting the current and the wind and the seas and only making 3.5 knots at times.  Today we are headed to rodriguez key to anchor for the night then back to marathon tomorrow.