Red sky at dawn. Good breakfast ashore. While pulling away from dock noticed we left the dinghy. One more check mark on my bonehead bucket list. Now writing underway with S on watch. Still a SE wind. Motorsailed a bit, but mostly power. Just watch- the wind will be from the N when we head home, whenever that is.
Later... now at Sanibel Marina. Years ago they tore down the old bridge from Punta Rassa to Sanibel, which had an opening near the Sanibel side, and replaced it with a fixed bridge 3 miles east. So to reach the south end of Sanibel requires an extra 7 miles of sailing. No problem for the hundreds of power boats out today (Saturday) but made for a long 23 miles 99% under power for us. But- the weather was fine and we were in beautiful Pine Island Sound. So who's complaining?
Checking the old blog posts, this is the third time we've been at this little marina, which specializes in powerboat brokerage and sees few sailing boats because of shallow water. But we know they do toss a newspaper and hot sweet rolls in the cockpit at dawn. We plan to spend two nights here. Then I swear we'll sail downwind, wherever that takes us.
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