The Crossing

The Crossing

It was amazing!

We got down to Lake Worth and anchored. C-Soul arrived later that evening and we were making pans to cross in the morning.

Shh! Don't tell anyone but Todd drove the boat through West Palm Beach - Lake Worth!!
we woke up at 2:30 am too hyped up to sleep, so we got up, did slow prep and at 3;45 turned on the engine. C-Soul's lights came on at the same time and we all started out the inlet.
Todd sprang into action, because he thought it as cool to sail in the dark. But when the sun came up, he went down!

With the new prop on, we were smokin'! We left C-soul behind us and for the first time ever, we actually passed boats!! When we crossed the Gulf Stream, we averaged 7 knots! and at one point I saw 12 on the GPS!!! Almost scary!!

We made it across in 8 hours! That's 4 hours faster than our fastest time! Everybody wants to rename the boat "The Rocket.' We went so fast we stripped off our new stripes! LOL

We took two days to get to Green Turtle. First night we stopped 8 miles from Mangrove Cay. We stopped only because we were tired and waited for C-Soul to catch up!! But that was a  75 mile day and we still stopped at 4 pm. The water was dead calm and  there was no wind. Rick and Todd went swimming to check the anchor and other things!

We are anchored in Green Turtle Cay! Safely checked in and all legal with Customs. We met up with Jande, [Diane and Andy] C-Soul [Mark and Gail] and Modaki [Joe and Yvonne - friends from Owen Sound]. Had a VERY long lunch at Miss Emilie's and we all returned to our boats. We will go back to town tonight around 6 for the golf cart parade and food at the basketball court! We plan to stay here and participate in the Christmas Eve potluck, the Christmas Day potluck, and Violet [the owner of Miss Emilie's ] thinks we should stay for the New Year's Junkanoo. She says Todd will love it.

This evening we went to the Golf Cart Parade. It starts with lots of food, drinks and social time, then the kindergarten kids came out and sang Christmas songs. We met a few new people, hooked up with old friends from previous years, even neighbours from Owen Sound.

When the parade started some woman grabbed Gail and I and asked if we would help judge the Gold Carts. She didn't explain that we would be the ONLY ones! It was a great time! 

Today we will have Christmas Eve dinner on C-Soul, with Jande and tomorrow we will have a potluck Christmas Day Dinner with the boaters at one of the bars that lets us use the place when they aren't open!

Calm waters!

Beautiful morning!