trip to marco island

So we left caya Costa bound for Marco Island but before we left we needed to fuel up so we go to a little marina to top the tanks off all went without an incident as were leaving the marina I have Karen holding the line to the dingy on the side of the boat so we don't get it caught up in the dock as we round the channel marker headed for open water I tell her to let go of the line shortly after that we both look back in horror as the dingy was not tied to the cleat and falling back behind rapidly lucky for us a very nice fisherman grabbed it and brought it back to the boat leave it to Captain Ahab. To not tied off to the cleat the rest of the trip went uneventful until the last 10 miles then we ran into a hellacious storm 40 mile an hour winds and 8 foot seas not fun but we made it through and the boat did great now we're waiting out weather in Marco Island hopefully we leave Sunday wish us luck