Cheesehead Navy

Yesterday we headed to Cayo Costa for a weekend rendezvous with some Wisconsin boating friends, meeting up with Les and Barb on Revision and Jim and Pam on Screech. First order of business was a sunset cocktail hour on Revision. This morning after breakfast we had a gathering on the beach for a boat bottom cleaning party. In that Buddy has a nice bottom, Cathie and I supervised the activity on the other two boats...

After lunch it was a trip through the love canal on Cayo Costa to get access to the beach on the Gulf side of the island. Tomorrow morning we pick everyone up on Buddy for a breakfast run to nearby Cabbage Key. Livin on sponge cake..

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High on Buddy

We do like our Rosborough. This morning Buddy was high on us... The able staff of Palm Island Marina hauled Buddy first thing this morning to rehab our SeaStar steering cylinder. The whole process took less than 3 hours. The last cold front was enough to convince me the seals in the cylinder were more than due for replacement. Lately when the weather would cool down, our steering would get a bit unpredictable. Not a good thing...

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Taxi!!

This being a special day, after breakfast I made a quick run to Walmart to get my Valentine a $5 bouquet of roses...  When I returned we decided to check out Palm Island and our PIMYC privileges. We took the water taxi from the marina to Palm Island. Captain Kelly gave us a nice ride to and from the island.

After grabbing a quick lunch at the Rum Bay restaurant, we headed to the beach. The weather was perfect and we spent a couple hours lounging and looking for shark's teeth. In that Palm Island is private, there were no crowds. From the photo, you can also see there were plenty of teeth...

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If you get bored in the Keys, go North and Freeze...

We moved today. Hauled the boat at 8:30 am, drove 266 miles NW to just north of Boca Grande, launched at 3 pm and were set in our slip for the next month at Palm Island Marina and Resort by 4. Great place, the heat is on as the overnight low is forecast to be 32... Warm-up Monday with the forecast in the 80's for the next two weeks. Our slip is behind the palm trees, behind the hot tub.

http://www.palmisland.com/the-island-experience/palm-island-marina/

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