It is April 28th and Terry and I are sitting in a bookstore in Coconut Grove Florida, a few miles south of Miami. Resolute is safely tied up in the Dinner Key Marina and will sit as we wait out a spell of quite strong winds - too strong and from the wrong direction to get to the Bahamas. But I am getting ahead of myself. This chapter goes back to April 6th.
On that date, I left with a loaded car, in a late spring snow storm, heading for the U.S. border. I had my sister Mary Anne with me and after dropping her off at her workplace in Toronto, I continued on. I took 2 long days and 1 short one to get to Indiantown Florida, where Resolute had been stored last December. The boat was moved to the work area where I installed another 80 watt solar panel and did a few other minor maintenance jobs. I had the boat launched after a week and made my way to Fort Lauderdale where Terry was scheduled to arrive on April 20th. On the way there I anchored out at Peck Lake, a popular anchorage and took slips at 2 marinas when threatening weather was forecast.
We stayed in F.L. for 3 days, tied up to a dock that was offered to us by Terry's friends Dan and Sue, who live on the south branch of the New River in F.L. Because of strong winds, we stopped at the Turnberry Isle Resort Marina for 3 days and awaited a decrease in the wind speed. We pressed on despite the wind yesterday and arrived at the Dinner Key Marina, near Coconut Grove in the early afternoon. Biscane Bay had a moderate chop to it but because of the direction of the wind, it was not too bad and we were in fact able to sail for about an hour.
We were greeted here by Kent and Karen Caraway who I had sailed with for several weeks on the way down here back in the fall. It took us little time to get into our habit of sundowners starting around 5:30. They had spent a few months over in the Bahamas since January, so we had a lot of questions for them.
I will get a few photos up as soon as I can.
ttyl
Mike
