Always an adventure!

We pulled the hook at sunrise as planned, or rather tried to.  We were set good!  After a few tries we were off.  Once we cleared the channel into Tampa Bay the real fun started!  20kts of wind across the length of the bay had stacked some impressive short period waves--we slammed our way across!  As we were headed for a tight channel with very little extra depth, the wave motion was concerning.  The Tampa bridge dampened the waves at the start of the channel, but all that wind had managed to blow water out of the bay and the channel was extra tight!  In one spot of reported shoaling Frank saw 7'--we draw 6'3"!  Tight!

We got a little reprieve as we made our way toward the marina and had a few friends join us.

The marina approach was shallow and the tide was going out--more stress!  We were finally to the dock and still couldn't catch a break.  The current and 15kt wind kept pushing us all over the place as Frank tried to back in.  After 4 tries and much help from our new dock neighbors, Lehe Paine was docked!  Whew!  

We quickly packed, grabbed a rental car, had a nice lunch as the marina fish shack, and buttoned up the boat.  That's the end of this leg of the move!