Things that float...

So this was a longer story and I didn't really have time to write about it when it happened. But now that we have some more time, it belongs in the blog! So one of the first things we did when we got to Palmyra was build a floating dock to make it easier for people to get on and off the boat from smaller boats when we are at anchor. So one night the dock was tied to the side of the boat. All three jetskis were tied off of the dock, and the two tinny boats were pulled up on top of the dock. So my morning started at about 545 when Gromyko came into my room and asked if I had moved the dock last night cause it wasn't tied up anymore. Uh oh... We checked all over for the dock thinking someone had moved it to the stern or something. No luck there. Looking over the rail, we saw the twisted and frayed remnants of the line that was holding the dock. Sometime during the night, the lines had parted and let the dock, three jetskis, and two tinny boats drift out the channel. We launched the skiff right away to go look for everything, and luckily found the flotilla about an hour later. The dock had stopped on a ten foot wide sandbar on the back side of the last island out. Had the dock floated even twenty feet to the side it would've been carried out the channel and into the breakers. Needless to say, we were very very lucky. The jetskis being trashed in the surf wouldve been a very very bad start to the morning and the project. But we got everything back so it's all good! After the dock got stuck, the tide dropped so when we got there it was all high and dry so we ended up taking all the bouys off of the skiff and using them as rollers to move the skis to deep water. By that time we were finally able to move the dock to deeper water and tow the flotilla back to the stern. A couple days ago we got the second dock in too so now we have a beautiful 30 by 8 dock on the back of the boat. Anyway, looks like it's time to go to work. Adios!