A booming voice calls out "Good morning, boys!" My wake-up call as the ferry workers arrive before dawn. Tuck away the sleeping gear and bring down the boom tent. A windless morning, calm, light overcast. Push away from the dock 6:25.Motor out of Silver Lake following the channel that heads briefly south and then east. 6:40 decide to take the Nine Foot Shoal Channel, turn to the southwest. 6:55 green "5" shows are are motoring against the tide as we run alongside a string of orange and blue crab pot floats. Glassy calm water.7:45 turn to port, leaving the channel to cross the shallows of Royal Shoal. The sun begins to break through the overcast.8:10 crossing the shoal, Portsmouth Island in the distance to the east and the Cedar Island ferry headed should to the west. Thin overcast and the slightest hint of a breeze out of the southeast, not enough to help. Stop to refuel the outboard. 8:55 at marker "WR7" turn to West Bay. 9:10 the tree line of Cedar Island shows on the horizon to the…
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