Delilah's Meanderings

Sailing the coastal waters of Southwest Florida, the Keys, and the Bahamas

Vessel Name: Delilah
Vessel Make/Model: Gemini 105Mc Catamaran
Hailing Port: Whiteland, IN
Crew: Mark & Kim Hayes
About:
We have been sailing over 25 years. Starting with a 14 foot sailboat, then a Catalina 22, and next a Pearson 27 before buying our dream boat the Gemini. This is our seventh season aboard Delilah. We are seasonal coastal cruisers, spending the winters on the boat in Florida. [...]
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25 February 2021
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25 January 2019
10 March 2018 | Warderick Wells Cay, Exumas
Recent Blog Posts
07 February 2022

Season 7 aboard Delilah begins

It has been a really long time since our last post. Last year's cruising season was cut short when I ruptured my Achillie's tendon playing pickle ball in Marathon in the Florida Keys on Feb 18th. We flew home and I had surgery March 1st. The surgery went well and 6 months later I was mostly back to [...]

25 February 2021

Man plans ... God laughs!

I am writing this blog on the couch with my left leg propped up on two pillows in our house in Whiteland, Indiana. A week ago today, I ruptured my left Achilles tendon while playing pickle ball. There was loud pop and I went down. Next thing you know, everyone was helping me and Kim. Applying first [...]

14 February 2021 | Boot Key Harbor

Still Enjoying Marathon

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone from Boot Key Harbor. We continue to enjoy our time in Marathon, especially life on a mooring ball. We've been here for one month and I just paid for another two weeks. This is highly unusual for us to stay in one place. We're not exactly the relaxed type of people! Within [...]

30 January 2021 | Boot Key Harbor

Enjoying Marathon

Kim said it was my turn to do a post ... so both your luck and mine ran out! We are still in Boot Key Harbor, but now tied to mooring ball U1. We were 10th on the waiting list and it took 12 days before we got the call. What a relief it is compared to anchoring in tight quarters in shallow water. [...]

19 January 2021 | Boot Key Harbor

Made it to the Keys!

Hello. We are currently anchored in Boot Key Harbor at the Marathon City Marina. Waiting for a mooring ball. When we arrived on Thursday, January 14, we were #10 on the wait list. Today we are #6. We hope to be on a mooring ball in about a week (or less!).

12 January 2021

Heading to the Keys...

On a quiet morning sprinkled with rain, we set out for warmer temperatures. We have spent the last six nights at Ft. Myers Beach mooring field. Today we are making our way south down the coast to Marathon in the Middle Keys. With luck we might be able to pick up a mooring ball at Boot Key Harbor. There [...]

Picture album added to the blog and a bonus story

27 January 2016 | Matanzas Harbor
Pooring down rain currently, but not freezing!
As promised pictures have been posted on the blog. Click on "More Photos" to the right and then click "View Album".

It has rained all day and more expected tomorrow, but it isn't freezing rain or snow. :)

Kim says I have to tell this story. There is a breakfast place called Heavenly Biscuit on FMB that we love to go to. They have terrific breakfast sandwiches on homemade biscuits and to die for cinnamon rolls. They open at 7:30am. So the plan was to take the dingy down this one canal behind Topps grocery store, walk to Heavenly Biscuit for breakfast, then get our weekly groceries before returning to the boat. As soon as we entered the canal we could see the tide was low, extremely low. The dingy dock provided by Topps was high and dry (actually muddy). I said maybe we should consider plan "B", but the Admiral was insistent that we stick to plan "A". I forgot to mention it was 45 degrees at this time. Anyway I stepped out of the dingy on to the mud bank. First step was ok, second I sank down to my knee. I got unstuck and even kept my shoe and found a board that Admiral could walk along and then over an old dingy in the mud and finally to the dock. I unzipped the legs off my pants leaving the shorts which looked a lot better. I washed off my shoes and ditched the socks at a water spigot by a store. Kim went in and ordered and we ate outside since I smelled none too sweet. It was delicious and worth the mud bath. We did our grocery store shopping ... I avoided the frozen section. The tide had come up a foot or so which made getting the groceries loaded in the dingy easier than it could have been. Just one more lesson learned.

Fair Winds,
Mark and Kim aboard s/v Delilah
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Delilah's Photos - Main
7th season aboard Delilah - February 2022
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6th season aboard Delilah - January 2021
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