Boca Raton to Miami

In Lake Boca Raton in the morning, I dived to inspect the shaft drive chain. The water was clear and salty. 

The drive chain was good, but the anodes were fairly worn. I had two anodes. One for fresh one for salt water.  I guess the fresh water one was pretty much corroded. 

I took off at 10:30. I got much better at timing the bridges. But as I got into Miami, I kept missing the bridge timing and wasted lots of time waiting for the next opening.  There was some shoaing, so I could not travel fast.

I got into Miami late, tired and concerned about Dodge Island bridge. It says it is 65 feet but I was very uncomfortable with it. Maybe it was fatigue and the darkness. I called Wally and he strongly suggested I return back and anchor between third and fourth Venetian bridges. 

The next day I cross the Dodge bridge again and the antenna definitely touched the bridge even though it’s supposed to be 67 feet My mast is 46 feet 

I got fuel and fuel at Croydon, Marine, and then docked at No Name Harbor. I tried to make Ramen for lunch but the propane ran out.  Perfect - I had optimized my propane usage.  The third SodaStream was also almost empty.  Trifecta!   

I tidy up the boat, remove the propane tanks, prepared the battery for changing I clean up the boat 

I waited for Sandrito to pick me up. He had trouble getting there and was trying to walk eventually he got there I re-anchored the boat and came back to the house and had a pork supper with Raul, Sandrito, Sandro and Nelly.  Good reunion.