Another Day Another Sunset on Mike’s Endeavor
Amazing what you can do – but here – what Mike has done with his. Day. What he did yesterday. Remember he is by himself. I can see something is missing. His inflatable with an out-board motor. That’s how alone he took the pix with his cellphone. I trust you to understand the Endeavor has a compliment of Marine Electronics. You can see the Radar Dome. Can’t you? I knew the previous owners of the Endeavor. They were a South African Couple; they bought the boat from 1000s miles “away” and suffice to say they spent ~ two years outfitting and over-hauling her. I watched them work as back then we were both in the Junk Yard across from where we are now. If you’re on the Anclote river you will see a sign for “Sea Services”. That’s where we were. It’s all on Google Maps.
Why is Mike sailing her alone instead of Percy and Ginny together? I don’t know. Maybe they’ll read this and comment. I saw Ginny in Nov.. She said they were going to Australia but would be back. I never really understood what John Lennon said about life till I bought my first sailboat.
“Life is what happens while we make other plans”
John Lennon
In my case I have VHF, Shortwave, GPS, Radar. Maybe later I’ll talk with Mike that way but right now for these purposes it’s easier to use the phone. His plan is to sail down the Intracoastal Waterway. The portion from Tarpon Springs to Ft. Myers. It’s like a road. It is marked with signs. The equivalent of exit ramps, right of way, etc..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracoastal_Waterway
During the war the WATERWAY provided some safety from German U-boats. Hemingway spent a couple years catching Marlins and looking for U-boats with his boat, the Pilar.
The Waterway currently consists of three non-contiguous segments: the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, extending from Brownsville, Texas east to Carrabelle, Florida; a second section of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, beginning at Tarpon Springs, Florida, and extending south to Fort Myers, Florida;[10] and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, extending from Key West, Florida to Norfolk, Virginia (milepost 0.0).
Read “Islands in the Stream” to learn more about this in the words of someone who knew the stream, loved fishing and had an acute sense of adventure. The Waterway from Tarpon Springs to Fort Meyers is a dredged channel in or on the shallow coastal shelf. It would be faster for Mike to sail line-of-sight from Tarpon Springs to Key West but that that would expose the Endeavor to attack by a lost das Boot unaware WWII is old news. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islands_in_the_Stream_(novel)
