Frolic

Frolic
Frolic, our 2005 Mainship 30 Pilot II replaced Calypso in 2015

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Last day underway for a while


Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Last day underway before our intermediate destination

Since I was awake anyway, I decided that we were leaving Cuba landing about 20 minutes early, and we had an uneventful ride for the last ninety miles to Green Turtle Bay Resort Marina as we watched the river widen out from a waterway to a real lake.  Concomitantly, our speed bled off a bit down to 9.0 MPH, but we got in here to the fuel dock at about 3:30 PM and took on 223 gallon of diesel fuel after 107 main engine hours and 746 miles of travel.
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