We sail with the tide
2019 - A New Adventure Begins It's always hectic on the way to cast off to cruise. Allowing plenty of time to prepare the boat and get our affairs in order, we think it should be easy. But it seems that life has other plans. Last minute details arise and plans gone awry grab our attention and add an element of stress. What? - the engine is overheating on a simple daysail? It's no real comfort to know that the work expands to fill the time available and it all works out. However, we do know that once we leave the dock and pass the entrance mark, our cares are blown away. Bay Breeze is ready to go. Our plans this year are to sail south. First to St. Petersburg to have Sailor's Wharf Boatyard inspect our rigging and coat the hull with anti-fouling paint. Then, on to Sarasota, Cayo Costa, Ft. Myers, Naples, the Ten Thousand Islands, and end up in Marathon. From there...we might make The Bahamas. Keys backcountry, or Dry Tortugas? We will retrace our route home, and t...