Burntside Adventures

It's been a few days since the last posting. We've been busy, but here's an update. Lasttime we had anchored behind Johnston key ad were dealing with east winds in the 25 knot range. They really never let up until this morning. From Johnston Key, we continued up the inside, gulf side and came in and anchored at Crawl Key, 15 miles or so from Marathon. Had pretty good protection for a night, no big adventures, then on to Marathon for provisioning for the Bahamas. We wanted to pick up a mooring ball there, there are 226 of them, all full with a waiting list of 16 boats. So, we anchored outside and rolled uncomfortably that night. Pulled stakes the next morning and went into the harbor and down Sister Creek. It is narrow but we could anchor there with a line to the mangroves on shore. It worked well, but the stern was only 20 feet from the shore. Flat water and good sleep for a couple of nights and got our groceries and water for the jump to the Bahamas. 7 other boats did the same thing. Marathon was pretty much ground zero for the hurricane last September and it shows. Crap s all over the place and they are working on sidewalk repairs, still re stringing power lines, etc. Most of the stores were open. The guy at the dinghy dock checkin was a jerk though. I rode my bike to get supplies and came to their open area, where there were at least a dozen other bikes parked, just to give hime back his key cards for the gates. I no more than walked in to the garage walking my bike and he jumped all over me that if I wasn't part of the bike program, I couldn't bring it in. How the hell would he know if I was or wasn't. I just wanted to spend some money in their town and support it, but he didn't make it pleasant or easy. In the creek we anchored in there are a row of microwave towers, 4 of them lined up and we had to be careful. If you line up with the towers, their signal sends out 100,000 watts of energy and other boaters have found that that microwave energy fried their electronics. We had coffee on Tuesday with a bunch of other Krogen owners at a local restaurant for breakfast. That was a real treat, bunch of nice folks and good sources of information. They had all been to the Bahamas in the last year, so I picked their brains a bit. We left Marathon yesterday morning on the Atlantic side for 25 miles to Jew Fisf Hole anchorage where we are now for a couple of days while I work today. 5 foot seas made it a bumpy ride, but the boat liked it just fine. Today I work, and finally got the last of the forms from Wells Fargo, so taxes are done, will get them mailed today, pull out for the Key Largo area tomorrow and it looks promising weather wise to cross to the Bahamas Saturday. I will upload pics for the past couple of days when I get a chance. This blog program doesn't want them this morning for some reason.
Engine Hours 4839.1
Genset Hours 5462.4