Yesterday was one of the first days for serious destination planning. We left from Anna Maria island, through a pack of about 40 boats fishing in the channel, and turned south. Our destination was to be Sarasota but we discovered through our cruising guide, google maps, and navionics that the only marina that for sure had ice, gas, and supplies would be "marina jack." That would be great but it is 5 miles up the channel from the gulf. A two hour round trip.
We changed plans and found we could spend that 10 miles traveling further south and make it to Venice, where there was a marina directly inside the channel.
So we pushed hard for 7 hours hoping to make it by 5 when they closed at 6. We were close reached motor/sailing hard and made it by 4:15. We were holding about 6mph headlong crashing into swells. It was quite exciting.
At the crows nest marina we got 4 bags of ice (our most important supply ) and figured out in the exactly 105 miles we have traveled we only used 10.5 gallons of gas, including a night running the generator. I now realize the 29 gallons of gas i brought to be sure we had enough to get the hundred miles from Marco island to the keys was ridiculously overkill. But thats ok!
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