The day started out beautifully. But no wind. However, with the waters calm motor sailing wasn't bad.
At one point, we looked off to the distant storm and saw a waterspout. Now for a midwest girl, that is somewhat alarming, but for the weather geek in me, damn cool.
It wasn't before long we got slammed with our own storms and we motored through some gnarly weather. No visibility, stinging rain, however the seas remained very agreeable, thank god for that reef out there.
So, we finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel and it cleared off. And lo and behold--we can actual be a sailboat! For about and hour and then the wind clocked onto our nose. Sigh.
However, it was enough to get us pretty close to Marathon and we pulled in at the Marathon Marina and Happy Hour.
New problem with the engine/alternator/electrics. A lot of agonizing by my husband because he thought he caused the problem, but found out that he didn't ruin his alternator as he feared, but burned out the regulator since the engine compartment got to hot, so we'll have to reinstall the new one outside the engine compartment.
Always learn something!
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