We got up thismorning to a lovely calm sunny day and called Foundry Marina to see about taking down the mast...most accomodating. It took 3 hurs to get here and ut was amazing that not pushing the boat past 2500rpm we were doing 5+ knots. To non-sailors that is like...what??? who cares? To us it is a VERY big deal. We dumped enough weight off the boat to GAIN a knot in speed at that rpm.
The mast was down by 3 pm and we could have left and headed over to theCanal but we would be stuck on the wall witing for it to open. Instead we opted to stay thenight here [no cost to us] and BONUS Copper Penny met us at the dock!!! George and Cindy [Bahamas friends] heard that a yellow cat was coming in so they looked out on thewater and saw GOOSE [ George never bothered with the "Other" part - he always just called "Goose, Goose" on the radio.
He has taken Rick to town to get a shackle that we lost and we are having dinner there tonight. Also Paula and Paul [also Bahamas friends] just f/b'ed me to let me know they are heading back this way [ I can't rememebr the name of their new boat]
Going to be a great evening!!
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