Monday 13 April 2020
We are still in Fort Myers Beach
due to the fairly awful weather – it’s just not worth the effort to move. However, tomorrow morning we will get loose
from here and head up the ICW and in a couple of days arrive at the Manatee
River area in the southern part of Tampa Bay to await a weather window to cross
the Big Bend in a 27-hour run. The waves
need to be reasonably kindly to take a 55-foot boat on that long a crossing,
not for the sake of the vessel but rather for our sake. Getting beat about in a can at sea is really
tiring and after a while just hazardous because you get tired and can get hurt
falling about. Our concern for tomorrow’s
getting underway is the closeness of the boat ahead of us (about three feet)
and the wind which could be pressing us against the pier. We’ will survey to situation and maybe get a
dockhand to help let got the last lines so one of us does not have to leap
aboard, or try to, as we hurriedly back away once I get a good angle with the
pier.
