Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Ft Myers Beach


We spent 4 nights in Marco Island's Smokehouse Bay. It wasn't a bad place to be but the 4 nights were dictated by some rather nasty weather. We took advantage of our stay by having some much needed sewing done on our cockpit enclosure. When we made the enclosure, we were planning on using it only occasionally. But it hasn't been off the boat since we left in October and the rip stop nylon top had just about disintegrated from sun exposure and some very high winds. We had a nice 35 mile sail in the Gulf of Mexico up to Ft. Myers beach where we picked up a mooring ball. The winds were out of the North East so we were close hulled the entire 35 miles and it was pretty cool until the wind died at the end of the trip.



This place has some very nice shower and laundry facilities. Carol and I took our first shower off the boat in over a month in a private and clean ceramic tile shower room. Its nice to have an unlimited supply of hot water once and a while

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