Back in Marathon

We are finally back in the water and back in Boot Key Harbor. We went back in the water last Wednesday but had a leak where the drive shaft enters the boat. We had her pulled back out and fixed that leak. We went back in the water on Friday at 2;30. On Saturday we traveled back to Marathon. It took us 7 hours and was a perfect day to be on the water. We arrived in Boot Key at about 1:30. The next day we went to church and then took the bus back to Key West to pick up the car and scooter. I rode the scooter back and Sharon drove the car. Of course it rained and stormed on the way back. I had a head wind most of the way and could not get over 50 mph. Had one impatient pickup truck driver almost run me over only to turn off the highway a mile later. When I crossed the seven mile bridge it rained the hardest of the whole trip, but we made it.

We don't ever want to go to a boatyard again. It was miserable. I think another two weeks and I would have been ready to trade Island Queen for an RV.

Ready to go back into the water. 

Bow  thruster.

Modified rudder.

Island Queen's only through hull.

Headed back to the water.