We had a another long day in front of us to run the ICW from Clearwater to Ft Myers. We were off the dock this morning at 7:15 under cloudy skies and gale force winds. The Coast Guard was on the VHF all day warning of wind and rough sea conditions.
The good news was that the skies were gray, we had gale force winds and there was no reason to be on the water today. Add all that up and that means we pretty much had the ICW all to ourselves. I don't think we passed more than 6 boats all day long.
This was just the break we needed. We ran the 150 miles today to Ft Myers in 8 hours. That has got to be a record. Normally there are lot of small boats and other traffic on the water that cause delays and the need to slow down to no wake speed as we are passing boats. Not today. We kept the throttle down and had no problems running the ditch.
We arrive in Ft Myers today at 3:15pm. The wind was howling at 30kts, but we got into our slip without incident. Again, we did a quick rinse of the boat and then it was off to Ford's Garage for a burger and beer. We wanted to get back to the boat in time to watch the Super Bowl.
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