Stay or GO??

We had everything ready to leave first thing tomorrow morning; groceries, fuel, propane, & charts. We even had a farewell dinner at Burdine's with our boat neighbor Kevin! Then we found out that the prevailing SE wind will shift tomorrow night to NE, which is unheard of this time of year, and the last thing you want on the Gulf Stream, which runs the opposite direction. We'd planned on a nice offshore overnight sail, but with north winds, it'd be a motor trip, hugging the shore (and dodging lobster traps!) to avoid the Gulf Stream's "square waves", as Uncle Bob calls them! On the other hand, the farther north we can get, the less weather we'll have from the hurricane. After agonizing over this, we decided to stay here on a mooring, take the sails and canvas off and stash them, and get a motel room Sunday night. Isaac's already been downgraded to a Tropical Storm, but should go right through Marathon, which means up to 70 knots of wind and lots of rain for several days. Then, when it calms down, we'll do that offshore trip to West Palm Beach and take the Intracoastal from there to Stuart, and Daren'll fly to work from West Palm Beach. Sounds like a good plan and it'll be a fun place for me to be while Daren's at work, hanging out with Tom and Jodie and Tracy and John.