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Just a quick post before we get ready for bed and a launch tomorrow!

As it turns out, mechanics can’t come to the mooring balls, so we had Tara towed to Marathon Marina. This is a nice facility that we have visited several times in the past. Our TowBoatUS. driver did a fabulous job of getting us towed from our mooring ball into the marina, where we are docked at the seawall. The mechanics from MarathonBoatyard showed up within 30 minutes and had us fixed and up and running within 2 hours. It turns out that it was just a wire connection which was what Doug suspected all along. We paid for two nights here, but after checking the weather, we decided it would be prudent to launch tomorrow morning. No Refunds, though!  However, we feel that it would be the best window of opportunity to get out of town and back to the mainland. We have decided not to go nonstop to Marco because that would be a journey of 90 miles (over 16 hours). So we are going to stop at Middle Cape (near the end of the Florida peninsula) or go near Little Shark River. We hope to not get too close to Little Shark because this time of year the mosquitoes and no-seeums are legendary.

We met Gene and Kay at Lazy Days Restaurant which is right here on the marina property. We all put our heads together and came up with the plan to leave tomorrow morning at @ 9am.  Once again, we’ll be losing all contact with the outside world for a while. The nice thing about this cruise–we can always talk to Gene & Kay on Sojourn by radio! 

So, goodbye for now. We’ll be back in touch from Marco Island sometime Wednesday or Thursday!

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