After leaving home dock on Dec 3, we found ourselves trying to make time. There was a cold front coming, we wanted to get to protected waters asap. The first day was long, NPR to Longboat Key, anchored by Moore. Next morning we arrived in Sarasota Bay, anchored off Oleary's, put dink in H2O, mosey over, to see our friends and ex owners of Paper Moon. We enjoyed a couple of hours of relaxing talk. Then back to beating the cold front. We spent that night in Cape Haze, on East side of ICW just north of the Boca Grande Bridge. Next morning we went out into Gulf via Boca grande Pass. We found 8 foot waves, and confused. We were taking a heack of a beating. After 30 mins, we made a u turn, headed
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