February 25, Day 245 - In Marathon

Our prediction of yesterday held true. We didn’t get much sleep. The winds were strong out of the north and we banged around all night. Maybe not as bad as a week or so ago, or maybe we’re just getting use to it. Second Star sustained some fiberglass damage when one of their lines and fenders gave way.

At noon we, along with the gang on Second Star, walked over to Porky’s for lunch. We needed to get off the boats. We also ended up walking to the bike shop and West Marine. It was still quite breezy and cool, but felt good to be on land – some place that wasn’t moving back and forth.
Later in the day, Linda went for a walk down to the bridge (it was very windy there in the cut) and Gerry napped and worked on taxes one last time. Then we sent them off.

By evening the wind had died down and we joined Michael and Jana and did a bit of chart planning for the Bahamas. However, until the northerly wind pattern changes there is really no sense in leaving Marathon as we can’t make a crossing.