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Our trip to our anchorage at Sawyer Key was four hours. The winds stayed over 15 kts. so we had a fabulous sail Eastward on the North side of the Keys. Happily we were able to turn off the engine for quite a while and still do 7 kts across the water! That’s pretty fast for us. Our anchorage is just off the Cudjoe Key channel–absolutely beautiful. We are anchored in 9 ft of water just off Sawyer Key. After setting the hook at 2pm, we relaxed in the cockpit while maintaining a vigilant assessment of the insect situation. We only were visited by a few teeny little flies and a couple of bigger ones, but it was enough to make us secure the screens over all the hatches so they wouldn’t feel welcome inside the boat.

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Another gorgeous sunset and Doug took some wonderful pictures of Sojourn anchored just west of us. Of course Doug and Geno blew their conchs at 7:57pm (official sunset)!

Today we are enjoying the scenery and doing a few things on the boat. Last night our V-berth fan died, so Doug replaced it with the fan from our “storeroom”. It got a little hot during the night since the current skewed the boat’s angle away from the wind. Not much air could make it’s way down the V-berth hatch, but tonight the fan should work all night to make up for the lack of airflow.

So it’s almost time for lunch and afterwards an exploring trip with the dinghy. Tomorrow we’ll probably start heading east toward Islamorada–probably to Grassy Key (just east of Marathon). Looks like we’ll be motoring since the winds are forecast to be low. Forecast for the next four days:   sunny and HOT!

Sojourn at sunset

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