Made a long hop today. Left at 3 a.m. Now that our direction is more northerly, we can sail with an east wind. We were able to sail most of the day, but sometimes we had to motorsail. We also had a 3-knot push from the Gulf Stream, so we were zooming along at 9 knots! We really didn't think we could make Miami in one day, but around 2:30 I began seeing skyscrapers in the distance. I couldn't believe my eyes at first; it didn't seem possible we were that close to Miami, but the skyscrapers kept getting bigger. We reached the Miami sea buoy about 5 o'clock. The channels were sort of weird coming in here, and Miami is totally different from what I expected. It's mostly water, dotted with islands.
The distance turned out to be more like 80 miles than 104.
We wandered around the harbor for a while and then decided to tie up at Miami Beach Marina for the night.
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