Big thanks to Terry and Marsha for hosting a great gathering at their highly under-rated Cayo Costa "fishing shack" and to Kmoose for getting all the seafood! Great to see some new boats and folks at this one, but we missed seeing Dave's Seavette and Connors 25 Seafari. Hopefully the outdrive gods will smile on you for the next gathering!
Have attached a couple of pictures that may be of interest. I evidently misread the charts because what I thought was only a 35 mile run from the Franklin Lock launch point turned out to be over 50 miles! Because of that little surprise and a 1 hour delay waiting for park ranger to show up so we could legally register truck & trailer to insure it didn't get towed, I wound the motor up to 4500 to run about 30 kts most of the way to get to Terry's before dark! At least that E-TEC is so quiet that Sandy and I could still converse at 30 kts! Burned almost 15 gallons but made up for it by using less than 12 gallons at a more leisurely pace (in the rain!) on the way back! FYI, those campgrounds at all the locks are run by the Corps of Engineers and have numerous on-site volunteers riding around on bicycles who keep an eye on stuff, so they appear to be a very secure place to leave your rig on a trip like this!
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