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| Frank caught a Cobia! |
We left Marathon on March 15th after Roy's father Frank, Nancy (significant other), Rod (Roy's twin brother) and Dianne (significant other) visit. We had a wonderful time! Rod arranged a fishing charter for us and guess who had the biggest catch! That's right me,with a 30 lb Mackerel then Frank with a 15 lb Cobia.
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| Yes, I had the biggest catch 30 LB King Mackerel! |
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| Roy, Frank, Nancy, Me, Diane and Rod with our catch! |
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| Happy Hour! Sid, Rich, Kent, Walt & Roy |
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| Happy Hour! Me, Anna, Jane, Pat, Bonnie & Sid. Sid this was the girls picture! Ok I won't go there!!!! |
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| Sid blowing his conch at sunset! Best Conch Blower in Boot Key! |
We sailed to Shark River for the night. We didn't see any sharks! The next day we sailed to Marco Island. I'm in love with this island. Everyone is so friendly and helpful not to mention how beautiful the island is. Roy will be traveling next week. We are going back to Marco Island, my sister Laurie is coming down to spend the week in Marco Island. My dad &wife surprised me and are also coming.
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| Sunset from our boat in Marco Islands |
Right now we are in Ft. Myers Beach mooring field. The pictures, below, are from a 47' Catalina that decided to travel on a 30 mph wind day and also fight the incoming tide to try and pickup a mooring ball right in front of us. The pictures show he did not make it. His rudder got hooked on our mooring ball and we had to wait for 1.5 hrs for the tow boat to show up. We were able to get a fender in between the two boats, but we still suffered some cosmetic damage to our port bow. We are waiting on estimates and the owner said he would pay for the damages. We all know mistakes happen, but when you live only 25 miles away, there was no reason for them to be traveling during the high winds. Now we have to have repairs done, lost a fender and had to cut one of our mooring lines. That along with having to remove our bowsprit and code 0 to make sure it didn't get damaged as well.
By the way, the tow boat couldn't do anything with the wind and tide. Between the two boats and another volunteering couple, we came up with a plan to get him off our bow and it worked. Just took 3 hours to make it happen.
"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it"
ReplyDeleteYou would think a person with a 47 ft. boat would know what he was doing. Hope the Yasmine Ann isn't damaged to bad! NN