We have had an interesting turn of events,...

March 4, 2010
Hi 64 Lo 49
Lat/Lon 25 39.7 N, 80 9.4 W

Coming into the Key Biscayne area yesterday, we began having engine trouble.

After sailing most of the day, we'd furled the sales and began motoring toward Key Biscayne. The engine alarm came on,... uh, oh,... we'd overheated. So we added some coolant and cautiously carried on.

After a while, the alarm came on again. So we killed the engine and put the sails back out and sailed to the nearest anchorage, which was No Name Harbor on the southern tip of Key Biscayne. We added more coolant, checked some thing-a-mabob, drained some doohickey, (pardon my technical terms there,…) and waited ‘til morning, hoping that we’d catch a lucky break and everything would be fine, just fine.

Well, no luck,... and no engine.

So after contacting a few mechanics, turns out we think we have cracked head! (And I don't mean Sid fell down the companion way.)

So, we are getting towed over to Dinner Key Marina, where we have a mechanic coming tomorrow morning to check out the motor.

We may be here a while. We don’t know if it will be 2 days, or 2 weeks, but needless to say, we won't make our flight back to Anacortes on the 11th. We don’t know for sure what we’re going to do, or when. We should know more after the mechanics visit tomorrow. But one thing we are pretty sure about is that “it ain’t gonna be cheap!”

Keep your fingers crossed for us!