Unstuck and Back

Marathon Harbor, N24 42W81 05
January 26, 2006

This morning I woke up, turned on the weather report, I heard a milder report than yesterdays, so I yelled, “Get up Libby, we’re leaving!”

We left at 0700 and arrived in Marathon Harbor by 1600. It was a lovely day with winds 15-23, and waves only 1-2 feet. I’m sure glad we doubted yesterday’s weather report. They had been saying “Bay Waters Rough” and “Small Craft Warning” and waves 5-8 feet. If we had stayed in the river 3 days waiting for a better weather report, that would have been dumb.

There were 6 other sailboats in the river with us last night. They all left about the same time as we did and all headed for Marathon. Several of them took a more direct route than we did and beat us there, but looking at my chart I think they ran too many risks with shoals. Our trip was very fast with following winds. It was also uneventful except for on blast on the depth sounder alarm signaling less that 5.5 feet. My heart skipped a beat but the alarm stopped immediately.

It feels good to be back in Marathon. We like this place. We’ll stay here several weeks until after David’s graduation and until we’re ready to set sail for Belize.