Saturday, November 10, 2007

Boot Key Harbor to Little Palm Island

We finally got a good weather window to leave Boot Key. We were looking into renting a car to go the rest of the way but we are glad we didn't.



It was still "small craft advisories" but we were excited to leave. The winds were from the north at 20+ knots and we "double reefed" the main. We were doing over 7 knots the whole way and it was smooth as silk. That is until we made the turn into Newfound Harbor. We had just contacted Rich, the harbor master at Little Palm. After we dropped the sails and fired up the engines I noticed we were dragging a crab pot. Bummer. We dropped the anchor and I put on dive gear and by the time I got into the water, the pot and line where gone. It didn't wrap around the prop, thank goodness.



The crew at Little Palm where there to help us tie up.



Now we are into photographer mode.