Thursday, May 23, 2013

Day 3, destination Fox Town

We haven't been on land now for a couple of days. I am looking forward to using our dinghy tonight, Little Girl, to go into town. Sailing is much the same. The day is overcast though and the seas are a little more rough. We have about 25 miles to go, but add tacking in there and it makes it much longer.
We caught another amber jack for lunch. He was a good fighter. We cooked it up on the outside grill. It is white meat and medium dense. It didn't have a ton of flavor so I like the barracuda better.
We made it into Fox Town to anchor around 7pm. Two other boats are anchored beside us. We hop up onto the bow and drop the dinghy (LG) into the water, put the 2 hp motor on it, grabbed 2 pfd's and went to check our anchor hold. We have a glass bottom bucket for this. We made it ourselves. It is A 3 gallon white honey bucket that I got from work, cut almost the entire bottom out but leave a 1/2" lip. Place on the lip a ring of 4200 marine sealant. Cut a piece of  clear Lexan to fit so that it sits inside the bottom of the bucket with the lip holding it. Push down firmly to get a nice seal. Put something heavy inside of it for the night so it can dry. Our neighbor boat at the Las Olas marina, Jim and Ellie on Finnirish called it a "lookey bucket". Love it! So we took our lookey bucket and motored out to above the end of the anchor, placed the bottom of the bucket in the water and I'll be darned, it worked! That is so cool.
We were going to have leftovers for dinner with the 5 ears of corn on the cob that we had left over. But after we cooked it all up we found out that the leftovers didn't taste right. We had just corn on the cob for dinner, with a rum and diet for Mark and a glass of wine for myself. We also had popcorn with our remainder of the movie. Lol! Pretty healthy eating right there.
I guess we will go to town tomorrow morning.

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like it is getting fun you guys. You have missed some truly miserable weather here. I think it is snowing today at Kalispell. It did warm up here this afternoon.
    Catch a big one for us.
    Carla

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