Greetings from Marathon, Florida! We left Nassau, Bahamas, Monday morning and after 45 hours and a slow, rough Gulf Stream crossing we put the anchor down outside Boot Key Harbor at Marathon to await the high tide that will take us across Florida Bay and into the Gulf of Mexico then on up to Fort Myers Beach. However, the weather forecast didn’t sound that great and we needed time to take the mainsail off and put up the old spare due to some minor damage coming across, so we stayed another night and will leave this afternoon at high tide instead, unless these thunderstorms don’t clear out this morning like they’re supposed to, then we’ll just stay here until it clears up. Once we do leave it should take us about 24 hours to reach the Fort Myers Beach anchorage then we’ll get busy finding a place to leave the boat for awhile. That’s all for now, see you soon.

David and Claudia
aboard MA’ALAHI