We're in Carrabelle, FL after a cloudt and sometimes rainy cruise from Panama City. Carrabelle is the last stop before our long open water Gulf crossing to Steinhatchee. We have our car here because we thought it might be a longer stop, waiting for waves in ther Gulf. However, the forecast is now for low waves on Tuesday, only a one day wait.

Pretty much the same cruising as previously, fun to watch dolphins but not to go out on the side decks to watch them in the rain. The only other unusual thing was this deer we saw swimming across the waterway, right in front of our boat, from the land side to the barrier islands side. I can just imagine calling up my insurance agent... "I hit a deer"... "Which car were you driving?" .... "No, I was in the boat!"

While we were coming in to Carrabelle, my starboard engine tachometer quit working and just read zero and the engine started speeding up. It's probably the tachometer drive stub, a 4 inch long cable with a square end that can round itself off over the years. 3 years ago, this happened with the port engine. I hope that is the problem, because it's easy and cheap to fix if I can get the parts. I'll find out tomorrow when I take it apart. The speedup was from the engine synchronizer trying to keep it at the same speed as the other engine underway, and the synch thought the engine was turning zero RPMs so it kept increasing the throttle. We'll explore around Carrabelle tomorrow and I'll try to fix the broken tachometer.