{"id":4170,"date":"2015-02-27T13:58:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T13:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2015-02-27T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T13:58:50","slug":"marathon-yes-we-are-still-here-as-is-most-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=4170","title":{"rendered":"Marathon: Yes, we are still here as is most everyone else."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Friday morning and we have been in Marathon for a week.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amazingly, even though they have some 250 moorings in the harbor we have still not made it onto one of them.\u00a0\u00a0 When we got here we were something like 32 on the waiting list and as of yesterday we were, I think, number nine. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most interesting is that there were about a dozen empty moorings when we went ashore yesterday morning and I was told that some folks rent one for the entire season just so that there will be one for them when they return after sailing elsewhere.\u00a0 I certainly understand that if you are willing to shell out the $$ for the season that you should get a mooring. \u00a0Somehow it seems wrong to have moorings sit open for days or weeks at a time when there is such a long waiting list.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t normally mind being at anchor but having to tie up in the mangroves makes for some pretty hot and buggy nights.\u00a0 The bug coils that we are using in the cockpit are working pretty well but it is quite hot in the evenings when the breeze drops it gets a bit close.<\/p>\n

We had a very nice visit with our son Rob who visited for two days after a business trip to Miami.\u00a0 It was a lot of fun.\u00a0 We drove down to Key West and had a nice lunch and walked around the town.<\/p>\n

There are some lovely old buildings in town. \u00a0 I expect that Henry Flagler, who built the rail link from Miami to Key West in the \u201cteens\u201d had a hand in this one.\u00a0 Very well preserved.\"\"<\/a>Nice shot of father, moi, and son.\"\"<\/a><\/span>About a month ago we had a \u201cmishap\u201d with the dink and tore a hole on the bow.\u00a0 While I had put a patch on it \u201cin the field\u201d, I wasn\u2019t confident that the repair was going to hold for the long term.\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily, there was an inflatable repair shop locally and they even provided pick-up and drop-off at a boat ramp downtown. \u00a0 Well, all\u2019s well now and the repair looks great.\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span>And what a grand “relaunching” it was. \u00a0Almost as good as new.\u00a0 The dink, that is.<\/span><\/p>\n

While we were waiting for the dink to be repaired, we had a long lunch at this lovely beach resort.\u00a0\u00a0 What a nice spot.\"\"<\/a><\/span>Finally, I haven\u2019t talked about this for a while but we have been showing Pandora to a few prospective buyers over the last weeks and we received our first offer a few days ago.\u00a0 As is so often the case, we weren\u2019t too happy with the offer and countered but the buyer bolted.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Better luck next time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, what next for Pandora and our travels?\u00a0 Well, the next weather window looks like it will come early in the week so perhaps we\u2019ll make a run for Bimini.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we\u2019ll clear the waiting list for a mooring when we leave?\u00a0\u00a0 They say that timing is everything and as it takes so long to make it onto a mooring perhaps that explains why so many NEVER LEAVE.\u00a0\u00a0 They simply don\u2019t want to lose their spot.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Friday morning and we have been in Marathon for a week.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Amazingly, even though they have some 250 moorings in the harbor we have still not made it onto one of them.\u00a0\u00a0 When we got here we were something like 32 on the waiting list and as of yesterday we were, I think, number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}