Preparing to make the hop!

Day 118, November 27th, 2009

The weather looked good on all the websites. Both the wind forecast and the waves. All the wind was looking good at less than 16 knots and out of the north or north east both Saturday and Sunday. Wave height was forecast as up to 2ft or less. We decided that we would leave at 7:00 the next day and go straight across to Tarpon Springs, expecting it to take about 30 hours.

So we spent the day preparing. First we walked over to the Moorings to say goodbye to Sharpie's Dream and Zephia. They had decided to leave Friday evening and take a longer route around the Big Bend, stopping at Alligator Harbour to sleep the first night and then stopping to sleep a few hours off to break the journey in the middle.

Having wished them well we went back to the Fisherman's Wife and had deep fried shrimp for lunch. Then in the afternoon I cleaned the boat and made a big pot of chili for the next day's journey.

In the evening we ate Grouper. I'd bought it off Buz a couple of nights before and they recommended frying it in garlic butter. Sue and Paul joined us and we enjoyed it. A baked potato, coleslaw and Grouper! Washed down with a bottle of wine.