Thursday, March 04, 2010
Where To From Key West?
We are in Key West positioned for an adequate period of settled weather to continue on. It has taken a long tome to get here, but we have been watching the weather in the Gulf of Mexico carefully for the past three months and it has been unsettled as one front after another passes through with the southern branch of the jet stream very low in the US. We arrived in Key West on March 1, taking advantage of a brief period between fronts. Before leaving Marathon we saw the potential for a good size weather window (favorable conditions) in the Gulf of Mexico beginning on March 5 and wanted to be positioned for it. Why the interest in the Gulf of Mexico weather? Our next stop will be Isla Mujeres, Mexico, an island off the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula and just off Cancun. The trip will take us about three days and three nights at sea, the longest by far for us. We are still working on our exact routing, looking at the current gulf stream position and strength. We hope to transmit our position every few hours which will then be posted on our blog. We will put a posting on the blog just before we leave. We have not yet decided on a Friday or Saturday departure.
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Norm, I cannot believe it, Dean and I were in the Keys at the same time you guys were there! In fact we spent several evenings at the Dockside bar and grill in Marathon. We were thinking and talking about you , but of course did not bring the notebook that had your blog address in it with us. We rented a condo off Sombrero Beach for 3 weeks and were there from February 13- March 6. Sounds like you are having a great time. Kathy and Dean Henderson
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