Getting perspective

You might have read Steve's account of our FL Bay crossing. I will be much more dramatic. First, we started out under a very calm night sky. It was beautiful with stars twinkling and perfect conditions for a night sail. That was to lure us into a false sense of security. Day breaks and the wind starts to build. Ok. That was expected. We had given our selves an out. If it too much we bail and head into Flamingo.  So of course the gust of 35 don't start till AFTER that bailing point. Meanwhile since we've been spending the last several days in the middle of nowhere I was never able to get all the charts needed downloaded, soooo when plotting to Marathon I charted to far east by like a half mile. So we spent a lot of time fighting the wind to stay up when we didn't need to.  Oops. 

Here's a pic of the two big fishing boats that Steve's already explained were the last part of this story. Yep the last 20 mins of the journey were the most adrenaline inducing. And that's saying something based on our ride.