The past week has been spent running to Wally World, Publix, West Marine, liquor store, and a few other places to stock up on things we will need while in the Bahamas. Got new charts from Landfall Navigation for the Bahamas. Landfall by the way is owned by Capt. Henry Marx, an old diesel submariner who Moose & I met a couple of years ago at Trawlerfest in Wisconsin. Much of the conversation at the time centered around which sub was better. Diesel or Nuclear since Moose was on a Nuke during his stint in the Navy. I don't remember a clear winner but it was sure entertaining as the night grew on and the empty glasses piled up. Landfall devotes most of it's catalog space to navigation and safety related items for boats like ours.
It's been warm and windy here this week. A boat club from Stuart came into the marina 2 days ago for a one night stay before going on to Naples. When they pulled out to continue their trip it was just a couple of hours before they came back. Sea's were running 3' to 5' in the Gulf which would make for an unpleasant ride to Naples. The forecast is for more of the same until Monday. In typical boater fashion they aren't letting the change in plans spoil their fun!
Each night on the dock the regulars gather for docktails before dinner. It seems that one of the local schools of fish (Mullets) have heard about this ritual and decided to join in. So every evening about the same time as docktails the Mullet go on a feeding frenzy around the marina. They stir the water up and keep on moving in pursuit of dinner. Quite entertaining!
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