I went home for nine days to take care of domestic issues that consume land lubbers time. Good to be back in NSB. Todd/Sherry's new house has the drywall up and they should be moving in a couple of months. Joe Frost on Gemini stopped by for a couple of days. I missed Richard and Carole Hackett on Kilissa from Solomons by one day, but will catch up with them. There were three boats from Hampton, VA the day before I left and one was a Catalina 470 named Southerly II. Their previous boat was Southerly that they brought to Screwpile for a few years. I have a black/white photo of us rounding the windward mark and setting spinnakers in a pretty good blow. Southerly was a boat length ahead and of course I owed him 6 sec/mile!!

Left NSB at 8 this morning for the long haul North. The highlight of the day was when some huge dolphins were jumping out of the water to apparently try to catch white butterflies that were about 2' off the water. A nice little afternoon snack for them...not sure how they taste.

Arrived in St. Augustine at my friends Hank and Marion who I met in the Bahamas. Arriving on a very low tide and Hank had to come out in his whaler to pick me up while waiting for the tide to come up to get to their dock. Late happy hour at the nearby Conch House Marina and then delicious spaghetti at their condo. Stayed late re-hashing all our Bahamas adventures.