He asked, “why are you going to all that trouble? Why don’t you just get the boat towed over here and just leave it here till the work can be done on the prop and the bottom. We do that work and I can find you someone to tow the boat over here. Its way less expensive than trying to do that work and then truck the boat to Tavernier.” Could everyone hear that sigh of relief that morning? I know that it was deafening where I stood and it felt like the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders.
I talked to Mike, the fellow that Tim pointed me to for the towing. That turned out to be relatively inexpensive and it turned out that Mike’s business did much of what we needed done to Eye Quit and he worked almost exclusively out of Shell Point. We made arrangements to have the boat towed the following day since Mike was minding his son who was feeling out of sorts and couldn’t go to school and right on the second he had promised, Mike came around the corner in his boat, ready to haul us over to the Marina.
I had already gotten the lines to the shore ready to let go and it wasn’t long before Eye Quit’s bow was tethered to Mike’s boat and we were headed down the canal toward Tampa Bay and the two hour tow over to the marina. I was paying attention to Mike’s hand gestures about how he wanted me to steer Eye Quit as we went around the corner at the end of Benny’s canal and I am glad that I wasn’t looking back. Lara told me after we had rounded the corner that Benny had watched us all the way down the canal and around the corner; I suppose not wanting to let go of his precious friend.
Now she was really ours. The tow over to Shell Point was calm and uneventful. We pulled in the marina and Tim had lines ready to throw to us and he pulled us backward into the slip that Eye Quit is going to inhabit for the next couple of months. More about our stay in the marina in my next post.
"Eye Quit"'s new home away from home:
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