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I spoke with a friend back at the yacht club this morning and she said the stationary dock is under 2 inches of water and it is not high tide yet. So we will wait until tomorrow to go back because we want to be rested to clean and we also do not want to run into any water over a road that we need. Because we live buy canada goose jacket on an island there will be water over the roads today especially at high tide. Tomorrow will be a different day.
Tomorrow we will be ready to do this again in reverse order. We will leave things tied as we are not going to go sailing until hurricane season is over this year and we do not want to tie it all up again. But we will clean it and move some stuff back and get back to life as normal on the boat by the end of the week.
