Heading south

 

We stopped in Coconut Grove which is in the south part of Miami before we headed the rest of the way south to boot key harbor at Marathon in the Keys. While we were at the dinghy dock I noticed that one side was mostly inflatable’s in good shape and the other side was filled with hard dinghy's of, well lets say, questionable integrity. (They looked pretty bad.)

It turns out that the right side of the dock was for the “paying” customers and the left side was for those who anchored out. Quite a contrast.

We didn’t stay around the Miami area because a cold front blew thru during the night providing us with a strong north wind and a ‘free ride’ south to the Keys. The wind was blowing a steady 15 to 20 kts and as we left Miami behind us the flag was standing out on the topping lift.

I was able to run down Biscayne Bay with both of the front sails pulling us along.

It made for a spirited ride! After using the engine to get out of the mooring field we never had to turned it on again. We even tacked into the anchorage at Tarpon Basin and dropped anchor while furling the sail. A perfect day. Hope that yours went as well as ours did.