Enjoying Panther Key

Spent the weekend at Panther Key.
Lots of time was spent sailing around in the sailing dinghies :)
Sailing the dinghy is a great way to practice one's sailing skills :)
Russell kept wondering why my sailing dinghy sailed so well... perhaps the wider area at the top of the sail and all the fangled "plastic stuff..."

Athena is rafted up to Blue Highway. In the background are sailboats from the Caloosahatchee Marching Chowder Society of Ft. Myers, FL.
Patty was adventurous during the weekend and even jumped onto Blue Highway to take a peak a couple times... Blue Highway's cat, Black Jack, was also curious of Athena and residents...

Watched a beautiful sunset from the shore of Panther Key.
The Caloosahatchee Marching Chowder Society (CMCS) held a pot luck that evening on the beach. We stopped in for a visit. One of the members of the CMCS spotted my "performance edition" sailing dinghy from West Marine. A light bulb went off in Russell's head at that comment, and from then on, he will probably never let me live that down!!! Honest, I had forgotten that fact!
Towed back by one of the members of the CMCS, since there was no wind to speak of, we went back to eat our own dinner on the sailboats.
There were walks on the beaches, having fun with old sculpted by nature mangrove roots, Lynne and I pretended to be "driftwood goddesses"...
There were also two attempts to use the solar oven to cook dinner... Attempts were thwarted by the clouds that moved in every afternoon. I've been convinced to install a propane stove in Athena, probably not an oven though...
So, over the weekend, some todos developed...
The jib is getting caught on one of the halyards up top; a stove of some type would be a nice thing to have; potential for electroplating the bottom piece attaching the rollerfurler to prevent rusting..., and, a second sail and perhaps some modification to the sailing dinghy so the "performance edition" doesn't get overpowered in higher winds...