As most of you know (how could you miss it?) we have found our dream boat, just a bit bigger and sturdier than Shamrock. Manatee is a 35 ft. Fantasia, full keel, double ended blue water boat that was designed wonderfully down below.
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| New lettering (after re-naming her back to Manatee) |
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| Down below, looking forward |
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| Looking up into cockpit |
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| The doorway to Captain Ed's workroom! |
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| Glad we got the dodger installed! |
We blew our whole cruising season “plan” right out of the water. With the repairs on Shamrock and then the new plan of searching for a bigger boat while in the Keys, we haven’t done much cruising and relaxing like we thought we would.
We have completed the sale and purchase of boats, got Manatee up to the trip and have finally re-started our cruising life. We are now heading back up the west coast to our new home in Panama City. (St. Andrews Marina).
We had a great time hanging out in Key Largo tho. Thanks to Ed’s sister and brother in law, we had access to a vehicle, and a mooring ball, and got to listen to live music almost every night of the week, from the cockpit of the boat.
We headed out off the mooring ball on my birthday, March 13. It took some time untangling the lines that were attached to the ball and to the boat. Captain Ed had to go in and untangle the mess!
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| Jewfish Creek, leaving Gilbert's Resort |
We sailed north and east to Angelfish Creek. I enjoyed a relaxing evening and a beautiful
sunset.
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| Thank you Charlotte, for the cutest pic!
The following day we went through Angelfish Creek and out to the Atlantic into the Hawk Channel to head south. We had a nice sail on an East wind for most of the day. Anchored behind Tavanier Key for the night, and left at sunrise on Sunday, for Marathon. We will probably hang out at the anchorage there until Tuesday morning. A north fluky wind is forecast until then, so we will just enjoy the keys for a couple of days before heading north and west towards Shark River in the Everglades.
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