By mid-night we are
dancing all over the place heeling with each swing. Linda finds it
too noisy to sleep in the front birth. I keep looking outside to
check on things. The violent swings loosens the traveler a couple
times which I have to tighten. I have left our dodger and Bimini up
because it is facing the wind, being able to swing on a mooring. On a
dock I would have taken all the canvas off. Finally around 1:00 AM
the rain stops and we just have the wind 35-40 mph with gusts over 50
mph, which gradually drops down to 15-20 mph by morning. I finally go
to sleep around 4:00 AM. We sleep in to 9:00 AM. After breakfast I
put the boat back to cruising configuration and put the dinghy and
motor down. Then I tackle the exciting tasks of defrosting the
refrigerator and lubing our, getting hard to flush head. We go ashore
and head to “Boomerangs” for some excellent dry rub ribs and come
back to the “Dry Dock” for coffee and dessert and have a short visit with Dan and Tina. They are heading south with an ICW Rally, a group of boaters that we will try to avoid, but I am sure we will see them in Florida and the Bahamas. Head back to the
boat and prepare to head out in the morning.
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