2nd day sailing

February 9th,  80 degrees. 7:30 at night

Today was a trying day, but I still would rather be sailing than back on the main land.
I found out that I blew out my starter on the port side engine. It had overheated the other day because it didn't have enough coolant in it. By the time I figured that out I had burnt out the starter.

The dingy engine also needs some work. One of the plastic gears is shot. This is the one used when you pull the starting cord and it engages the main fly wheel, it was chewed up. So I will need to get a new one of them.

Also I ran aground today, that was fun. but we found that two dingy's operating at full engine speed are enough to pull a 32 foot catamaran off of some shallow mud. Thanks to the folks that pulled me out of the shallows.

The good news is we sailed 6 hours and made it to Boot Key. The weather was really nice and we had a great sail.