Captain’s Log – 5/25/25
After hitting the incredible and free breakfast buffet we left the Pink Shell Resort (with some walking bacon🙂) headed for Useppa Island to anchor for the evening. All the marinas were booked for the holiday weekend.
We were able to sail most of the way there, until the wind died early afternoon. Our batteries were topped off from being plugged in at the marina so no issue with the alternator overheating the engine today.
Useppa Island is a beautiful private island. We’ve been invited there a few times over the years and docked there. We anchored just off Useppa, directly across from Cabbage Key.
The current heatwave is no joke. We deployed our shade tarps to attempt to keep the boat cooler. And we made frozen Miami Vice drinks to cool us down.
The Feels Like temperature was over 100. I’m not gonna lie, the heat was getting to me. The plan was to head over to Cabbage Key for dinner but it was simply too hot to launch the dinghy. Need to minimize exertion in this kind of heat. We opted to grill steaks instead. The cabin temperature dipped just below 90 after sunset. We ran the inverter to power the big fan all night long. The boat cooled down to a sticky 85 by morning.
We’ve made the decision to push the rest of the way home Tuesday. We’ll go into Venice tomorrow where I found a slip so we can run the AC again. Then we’ll push the rest of the way Tuesday, a long day in the heat for sure, but we’ll be home to the refuge of our AC.
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