Dangerous Equipment

One of our favourite sailing bloggers, Toast of ToastFloats, says that the
most dangerous piece of equipment on a sailboat is a calendar. She's right,
calendars make you do things that you would never ordinarily do. A schedule
does not suit a sailboat and we've found that out. Not in a dangerous way
(thank goodness!), but in trying to find weather windows which will allow us
to get where we want to go and BACK! We've been waiting for one to head
over to the Dry Tortugas, but it doesn't look like there's going to be one
which will allow us to go out and ensure that we have sufficient time to get
back to make the UK trip, our calendar commitment. We've been bogged down
with weather for the past two weeks, there's a nice window to head to the
DTs this week, but we can't afford to get bogged down out there now. We
don't want to make bad decisions because of the calendar.

So no DTs for us this trip and it's been oh so horrible being bogged down in
Key West (NOT!). An 'intensifying high pressure system' coming through
tomorrow and one on Friday so we're going to make a quick trip up to
Marathon and then do short sails from there until we leave for the UK.
(Also having our cockpit enclosure put on - it's like having an addition put
on your house, a conservatory!)