Alone Again!

Wednesday, February 4, 2014    And Then There Was One!

Shortly after saying goodbye to Kathy, Bill and Steve, we dropped our lines from Bahia Honda and headed out to the Outta The Blue Marina in Marathon. Even though the wind was blowing at 15 knots, there was only a light chop on the bay. As we rounded Moser Channel into the Atlantic side, the chop became moderate. Our route took us into Boot Key Harbor and back out to the Hawk Channel side by way of Sisters Creek. Once out of the entrance channel, we found three to four foot seas. We tried taking the waves at different angles; we tried varying the speed; we even tried plugging along at 3 mph! All to no avail. The boat was pounding hard into the waves. We crashed down so hard off one particular wave that the GPS turned itself off. I don't know why that happened but it powered back up right away.

We turned around and went back into Sisters Creek, toured the harbor and anchored for a bit. We made two more unsuccessful attempts later in the day. We finally dropped the hook in Sisters Creek and relaxed the rest of the afternoon and evening away. Tomorrow we we'll try again.

It appears that the Nomad's limits are 15+ knots of wind on the nose and three to four foot chop.