Going Outside and Sailing tomorrow!

Forecast for 41 to 55 mile sail tomorrow from Lake Worth outlet to Hillsboro Inlet or Fort Lauderdale Inlet. Hillsboro Inlet can be tough to navigate. NE to ENE winds at about 10 knots; 2-4 waves, swells of course. Temps: 60-75. Haven't done this for a while. Leaving about 7:30 am. Diane and Frank on Utopia are buddy-boating with us. They have friends at Lighthouse Point just off the Hillsboro Inlet. We may hang with them all the way to the Keys.

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Duff & Maintenance today in North Palm Beach

Boat maintenance day in North Palm Beach Marina. Oil and filters changed. Transmission fluid checked. Refrigerator cleaned. Rugs washed. Pump out done. Diesel tank & jerry cans filled. Water tank filled. Added more lines to Lazy Jacks (4 per side, was only 2) - hope it works and we don't have to go forward as often. [Boat gets washed next?] You just have to have these days sometimes. Easier when it is warm and sunny outside. Perfect weather.  Small craft warnings, of course - Wolf! Wolf!

Flagler

Decided to go to Flagler Museum in Palm Beach with Diane and Frank by cab. $40 later, with our eyes huge we get out. We had expected $25. Then $18/person to get in. Interesting and beautiful place. But $40?!! So we check our phones out for path back by bus to marina. We certainly amused the other passengers and bewildered the drivers. $1.50/person. Long walk on the front end and at the back end. AND two hours. But this is the journey. On-line bus schedules were changing while we were viewing them [note to Palm Beach Bus Works: get your shit together]

Joe de la Cova says that $40 is just the gratuity in Palm Beach.

Music Room, Flagler Museum

in Flagler

Lake Worth, Palm Beach from Flagler Museum

Flagrant Female at Flagler

on to Palm Beach

Well, Bad Bob here.  Have been MUCH too busy enjoying the good life in the cruiser communities (read: mooring balls, marinas, other sailers, restaurants, shopping, hanging out) in Vero Beach and in Stuart.

Today we headed down the ICW to North Palm Beach.  We are buddy-boating with Diane & Frank Albani; may stay with them to the Keys.  [or not?]

Had a great evening yesterday with Laurence & Joan Wright (of the Trailer Sailors).  We will probably leave our boat for next summer where they do - in Indiantown, Florida.  Fresh water, 25 miles inland so no hurricane problem.  They rent jackstands and help with all the work of summerizing (I used to say winterizing) the boat - including haulout, DYI or they-do maintenance, renting air conditioned storage lockers (no mildew on the clothes or cushions!). Can even have someone check the boat monthly and pump up the DampRid.

Some day, Bad Bob will elaborate about the great boater stops at Vero & Stuart.  But after a hard day fighting bridges on the ICW, it's time for rest and rum ...

on to Stuart

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We are now on a mooring ball in Stuart, Florida.  Another boater-friendly community.  Will be here for several days.

Vero Beach

Placeholder blog entry.  Will write more about our great stay here when we get time.  Come back, y'all ...

on to Fort Pierce

Placeholder blog entry.  Will write more about our great stay here when we get time.  Come back, y'all ...