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This is the 52" trawler that never made it to
the Tortugas. That's another long story. Us divers
aboard were very upset. The other people were happy to just
float around and soak up the sun. We were on a mission...Dry
Tortugas or bust.
The extra large Jew fish was hiding in a
wreck somewhere south of Key West.
We abandoned the trawler, rented car drove
to Key West, rented a speed boat and made it to the Tortugas
for my birthday. This is a 28" Baja that took us at high
speed to my best vacation yet.
The boat was great. We entered in
the coordinates to The Tortugas and took off at 40 knots. Small
problem... the GPS quit working! We were still in
sight of Key West, so should have gone back, But after a short
discussion, we continued on without GPS. The Tortugas are about
70 miles West of Key West. I thought if we miss them, we'll
just have turn around and try to find the Keys.
We stopped a couple of
times to play in the clear water and lost tract of time. The
Tortugas are about 2 hours at 40 knots, we had to guess how
long we had been heading West. After about 2 hours, we thought
we might have missed them. We kept West for another 30 min,
then another 15, then just as we started to worry.... we saw a
speck on the horizon. The speck was the tip of the light house! |
