Day #4: Between the beautiful color of the water and the Dolphins that play in our wake, the Keys are a hard place to beat.
But, since I've been on a roll with anchoring stories, here's what happened today.
Believe it or not, there is a 35# CQR anchor in the midst of all that grass and sand; really. Nellie brought this mess up after a quick stop in Community Harbor on Key Largo. What's really amazing is that the holding was terrible--shades of the Bahamas terrible. While waiting for the crew to return from a grocery run the anchor had to be reset twice. And yes, the scope was greater than 6:1. The folks at the local marina said that no anchors work well in the area. Yea, we got that...
At anchor off Key Largo's Tarpon Basin North. 25nm today and 83nm total. DBH
