Emerald Bay Marina

Tyler and I arrived at the boat yesterday at 2pm and found it in great condition. We checked off our maintenance and repair tasks one by one and the boat was ready to go by noon today.

Today's first obstacle....the opening to the creek where we kept the boat for the last 14 months is now barricaded by a shallow sand bar. So we carefully measured our boat's depth and figured out that if we waited until high tide (3pm today) the water would still not be quite high enough for the boat to get out .

We decided to "phone a friend" and "Big D" graciously offered to use his boat to pull ours over the narrow spit of sand. He came out just as the tide was highest and he dragged us over the sand and into deeper water, we were thrilled!

So thrilled in fact, that we got distracted and that led to today's second obstacle.....we caught the dinghy's painter (rope) in the propeller. This caused the motor to stall, and the dinghy to get dragged underwater so forcefully that it cracked the fiberglass bottom and the painter had to be cut away from the prop with a dive knife.

We loaded the dinghy on board and made fast for Emerald Bay marina, which had closed by the time we arrived, where we will spend the night. We had supplies on board to repair the fiberglass crack and Tyler and I were able to get that finished just after dark today. The only picture I got was the boat that pulled in right after us and is now our new neighbor, so enjoy.

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