Cool Beginning, Sunny End

Day 179: Saturday, March 2, 2013

Port to Port: Fort Myers, Florida

Underway: 0:00 am      Motor Off: 0:00 pm      Miles Traveled: 0      Stayed At: Marina

Mile to Mile: The day started cold, windy and overcast with only intermittent peaks at the sun. That didn’t stop us from exploring Fort Myers some more. This time we hopped on the free downtown trolley and rode it for one complete circuit. The driver gave us a little history lesson on some of the downtown buildings and founding families. And we were out of the wind for a little while.

We stopped at a church sale and found a small $5 folding table that had chrome U-shaped legs that may work perfectly to build a lift for towing the dinghy. We are hoping that by lifting the stern and towing the dinghy backwards, we can significantly reduce the drag and increase our average speed a few tenths of a mph. We’ll see if it works.

Although we were tempted to go out to eat, we decided to cook some steak that we bought several days ago and add some fried potatoes and green beans. To make it easy, I grilled the steak and potatoes on the big grill by the office and brought it back to the boat. The sun made a welcome if belated appearance just in time to enjoy while I was cooking.

We tried to watch a movie on Netflix but the internet was overloaded (probably with other people watching Netflix) so we gave up and watched a movie DVD instead. It is incredibly frustrating when the technology we have come to rely on doesn’t meet our expectations. And we can’t do anything easy to fix it. At least we’ll sleep good tonight.

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