Sarasota

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This is as far north as we plan to get this season. We had a reunion with Wiarton Marina friends this afternoon at the marina. In a day or two we will begin heading back to Port Charlotte for our haul-out on March 28th.

We had a great visit with Brian and Valarie in Venice - they have a CS 34 at Wiarton and also cruised these parts 9 years ago.

A couple of recent highlights were finding fossilized sharks' teeth on the beach at Englewood and being lucky to see the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis from the other side of Florida!

We are definitely in countdown mode now - after almost 5 months living aboard we have a long list of things to do before we put Gust O'Wind away for the summer.

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Photos

bad day
he ended up on Englewood Beach when his anchor let go in a blow

Brian & Valarie
friends from Wiarton Marina

Punta Gorda
with Rick, Lin and Val in the Punta Gorda anchorage

swimmer
Marlene's first swim in the Gulf of Mexico

sharks' teeth
found during a 3 hour beach walk at Englewood

shuttle
the tiny bright light left of and halfway up the smoke trail is the shuttle heading east

Sarasota marina
they even deliver the local newspaper to your boat each morning - 2 days are all the budget can handle!

fountain
Sarasota has a beautiful bay front - we look out at this fountain

row?
a clever name! also a reference to a landmark abortion rights court case in the US - Rowe vs Wade

fellow sailors
We had a brief but fun get together with Audrey, Bill, Kath and John - friends from the Wiarton Marina here in Sarasota this afternoon