We flew back to Florida the first week of January to resume our cruise, flying into Orlanda and then visiting our friends the Murrays in Daytona. When we arrived at the boat it had not been launched and we asked them to do over a few things, with the launching occuring later that afternoon.
As we backed the boat out of the travel lift, the starboard engine sputtered and died which suddenly made docking an interesting challenge! Once docked, investigation revelaed that the person who had polished the fuel had left the valve to the starboard engine closed. The engine fired back up quickly once we opened it, much to my relief.
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| Stuart sailfish fountain - Stuart bills itself as the sailfish capital of the world |
From there, we went to Stuart, Fl where we spent several weeks doing maintenance and getting the boat ready for the Bahamas. We were able to ride our bikes around town quite a bit and did a lot of walking. One morning we awoke to find our dinghy had been stolen. With help from the Harbormaster we were able to recover the dinghy but the motor was gone. As a result, we now have a new Yamaha 4 HP motor for the dinghy.
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Jean at "confusion corner" a traffic circle with a railroad
track running through the middle |
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| The mooring field at Stuart |
Later in our stay there, we were visited by son Bill and were also joined by our friend Paul Kelly who traveled will us down to Ft Lauderdale with stops in Palm Beach and Lake Santa Barbara.
We stayed in Ft Lauderdale for over a week, tied to a mooring ball at Los Olas marina. The marina is 2 blocks from the beach and is one of our favorite stops. Our freinds Doug & Maggie Bauer joined us there for a few days and we had good visit with them. We then prepared to cross to West End, Grand Bahama island on the first day the weather was good.
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| Typical property on ICW - note no one in sight enjoying it |
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| Sun Cat at the mooring field at Los Olas |
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