Friday 17 April 2020
The winds here in Bradenton blew hard
out of the east all yesterday and have finally moderated this afternoon. The skies are cloudy because the front which
went through here yesterday stalled out south of here and is now retreating
back north over us. This apparently does
nothing to the sea state between here and Carrabelle as the forecast remains
good for tomorrow and the first half of Sunday, but we need to be off the open
waters before the potential severe weather rolls through the Carrabelle area
during the latter part of Sunday. If we
were to delay for some reason, the next opportunity to cross the Big Bend would
be a least a week, and maybe longer, away.
We can expect to be out of contact for about twenty four hours beginning
around noon Saturday. If conditions
allow, I may get off a quick blog post before we lose contact.
