From:	"Jon Bickel" <papillon31@earthlink.net>  View Contact Details
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Subject:	Papillon update
Date:	Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:06:13 -0500

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 N 25° 41.3   W 80° 10.4

We have arrived, in the Keys that is again running from the colddddd! We left Miami or Key Biscayne early Sunday morning using the front edge of the cold front to help us sail south. We had gradually building NW winds that reached 20+ knots to push us south and we made Key Largo by about 1430. We tucked up inside a cove in Tarpon Basin just south of Jewfish Creek and had a comfortable night and day while the winds swirled around us. I got down in the 50's here last night, better than the high 30's where we just left. Tomorrow looks pretty good to make Marathon with the wind clocking around to the NE to E and were are going WSW. I called today and all the moorings are taken so we will anchor out until we can pick up a mooring. Lot of folks probably waiting for the weather to break so they can head to the Bahamas.

I have a phone interview tonight with a freelance writer in Oregon who wants to use Ruby's experiences as a "Boat Kat" for an article he is doing on live aboard kats. (I'll keep you posted). He discovered her when our web site turned up on an internet search.

It is good to be back in the Keys!!!

Check out our position  ( copy and paste to your browser) www.liveaboardsvpapillon.homestead.com/chartourcourse.html

To check out Ruby's web pages (copy and paste to your browser)  www.liveaboardsvpapillon.homestead.com/rubyspage.html

Here is Ruby in the boatyard. 

"Goin where the weather suits my clothes"

Capt Jon & Ruby