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Ah, Ft Lauderdale and warm weather! |
Finally it is getting warm! We left Boynton Beach this
morning with temperatures in the 50's, that's cold for Florida! However, we had
a full sun and with our cockpit enclosure, it warmed up nicely to an extent
that we had to open the curtains to get rid of the excess heat, it felt good.
Today, Sunday, was the day of 15 bridges. They are all spaced and timed so you
don't have to slow down or wait for them to open but we did run into one bridge
that was inoperable for awhile. We had to tie up to a park bulkhead for 1/2
hour waiting for them to fix it. Eventually, the mechanics arrived and we made
it through.
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Downtown was bumper to bumper |
The trip down through the "canyon" wasn't nearly
as bad as we expected, there wasn't that much traffic. At one point we actually
got stopped for speeding!! We were tooling along at 6.5 knots and a police boat
with flashing blue lights pulled up along side and said to back off to 1000
rpm. For us that's about 3 kts, way too slow to make the next bridge in time.
He didn't give us a ticket, just a warning so after he continued on north, we
increased our speed just enough to make the bridge. Seriously, we were not
putting out any wake, I think it was a slow morning and we were the only boat
out that early, what else to do?
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Hoolie never fails to attract a few admirers |
We're now in the Ft Lauderdale mooring field, right in the
middle of downtown, close enough to walk to the beach, which of course we did!
Even in the middle of winter the place was packed. The beach was not as crowded
as during spring break but there were plenty of bikinis out.
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Nighttime at the mooring field |
Since the weather forecast is good, we'll leave Monday
morning for Miami and Marine Stadium and even warmer weather!