After Keenan and Scott's wedding, we flew immedately to Florida. I usually edit my weddings the next couple days but we had our tickets for Sunday. It was kind of a good thing, I was able to edit their wedding while on the boat which is always a great atmosphere for creativity.
A couple days later we took the boat to Cracker Boy marina in West Palm Beach. They are one of the few yards that can haul a boat as wide as ours. They turned out to be a great place to work with, which wasn't always true with some of the vendors that did some of the repairs.
The real chalenge with Craker Boy was trying to bring a 23.5' wide boat into a 25' with a raging tide and 17 knot winds. It wan't picture perfect but the great crew there helped us do it unscathed.
On the way up we had trouble charging in the port engine and over heating on the starbourd engine again. We concentrated on working on the Max props, the saildrives and the mechanical work I did most of that.
After we put the boat back in we had a wonderful trip south. We anchored in Boca bay for a night, then we sailed outside to Ft Lauderdale. It was supposed to be less than 2' seas but it ended up being about 5' and we hit a blinding rainstorm just before Port Everglades. We were surrounded by Freighters when we lost vision and the redar wasn't working since the batteries weren't charging again. But we followed the GPS in and kept a close watch and were fine.
We then stayed at Lake Sylvia for the first time. It was great, we slept on the tampoline watching the sky until another rainstorm came.
