Due to a set of circumstances that involved weather, another dinged prop, and friends with radar we decided to leave with three other boats to make the Gulf crossing on Wednesday afternoon about 3:00pm. Since we were travelling at around 10 mph, this turned out to be a 16 hour ride. We departed from Carabelle, FL and eventually pulled into the northern tip of Longboat Key around noon on Thursday. Jeff and I had an early dinner and crashed so we could finish the trip on Friday.
From Longboat Key we cruised down the ICW to Boca Grande and then turned east across Charlotte Harbor to our final destination of Burnt Store Marina. We finally pulled in about 4:30 and went off to have an end-of-cruise celebration dinner.
Jeff left for home on Sunday, where he will be reunited with his family. Patty and her mother drove down from MN and arrived Sunday about noon. We plan to stay here for three weeks while we get the boat prepared to enter into the charter business.
After cruising all kinds of waters, both fresh and salt, for five weeks, Tricia Ann is about as dirty as a boat can get. We have our hands full getting her cleaned out and cleaned up. I will have some details about distances and fuel burn in the epilogue and soon as I get my adding machine warmed up.
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Glad you made it ok. That was an adventure...not many would ever even try.
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