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| First tow |
Next day we call Tow Boat USA at 8. They're really busy (another boat ran up on shore last night) but they'd get there soon. It took about an hour and a half, they hooked on started towing and then told us that the Flagler bridge (within site) was having problems and was closed till further notice! He parked us out of the channel, said that he would monitor the bridge channel (and we should too) and he'd be back when it was fixed. A short time later I heard someone ask the opening time for Flagler and the operator said it will be open in 10 minutes! So we called her and she said they were having problems but maintenance was on site and the bridge was mostly operational. We called TowBoat to give them this information - which they should have known! They said they'd come back soon.
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| Second tow |
Soon turned out to be 1:45 p.m. I should explain that they don't like you to sail through the bridges, you have to motor so we couldn't just go on our own. The bonus of being towed is that you don't have to wait for regular opening times, they just open them all up for all commercial vessels. Without that bonus we would not have made it to the marina in time to get hauled out - as it was we were late and they were not happy.
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| Getting the lines ready for docking |
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| Getting hauled out |
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| Mallory cleaned the bottom so well before we left that perhaps we don't need her repainted! |
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