Yesterday we had friends from another boat join us for dinner on our boat. Gail asked if she could bring something so I asked her to bring dessert. She’s a great baker (and she has an oven on her boat, something I don’t have), so I thought that would be great. She texted and asked if we liked bananas because she was thinking of making banana chocolate chip cupcakes. I said who doesn’t like bananas and chocolate – sounded delicious! Later, as we were enjoying her yummy cupcakes she mentioned that there is a superstition about having bananas on a boat. So of course we had to google it. Sure enough, especially among fishermen, it’s considered bad luck to have bananas on a boat. There are lots of theories about where this superstition originated, but apparently some fishermen won’t even allow someone on their boat if that person is using banana boat sunscreen or wearing Banana Republic clothing!

Wednesday night was a bad night for cooking, so we ordered pizza from a place that has dough flown in each day from New Jersey. The Hurricane Bar and Grille has been in Marathon longer than any other bar here and the inside looks like what you would expect from an old bar that’s been family owned and operated for decades. One side was primarily a bar, complete with pool tables and stale cigarette smoke, the family side was pretty plain, and the back patio was quite large. And the pizza and garlic knots were outstanding!

This afternoon we had our bottom cleaned – the bottom of the boat, that is.😄. A young woman in a wet suit dived the boat and scraped off all the slime and barnacles that had accumulated on the hull. She uses a hookah diving system to be able to stay under water while she does it. Her tank sat on the dock and she was connected to it with this long hose.