The Waiting Game

Wed March 4, 2015
No Name Harbor
Coco Beach, FL

We left Steam Boat Creek anchorage in  Barnes Sound around 8 this morning and headed for Little Card Sound and Card Sound and finally Biscayne Bay to No Name Harbor.  We arrived there at 3 and Handleys arrived about 4:30. We got together for Judy's birthday dinner at the only restaurant at the harbor.  Her birthday is tomorrow but what we will be doing and where we will be tomorrow is still up in the air. We hadn't seen them in 2 weeks..

We had some narrow channels in what looked like wide open spaces but we eventually had room to sail with winds 110 to 90 degrees off our starboard side. Wind speed was 12-17 kts and we made some good time for a turtle 5 to 6.9 kts.  We sailed 2 or 3 hours without the motor, the rest of the day was mostly motor sailing.

No Name was crowded, 22 boats when we came in. Wonder how many are waiting for a Gulf Stream crossing too. We will make our final decision in the morning by 7;30. When we listen to Chris Parker.
I hope this is a good experience because after 9 weeks on the boat I am getting a bit weary.

Judy came to the rescue with a copy of the papers to be filled out for entering the Bahamas but before we finished dinner Lee had gotten them wet. Think they had wiped the table just before we sat down. She also had the cards we will need to fill out. Where we will check in is still up in the air. Guess we will be making a lot of decisions on the fly. Wind direction seems to be the crucial player in all plans.

I think we managed to get one day without sacrifice to the water gods. Nothing went over board.
If we manage to get in international waters tomorrow we may not be able to post daily so this may be the last blog for a while.