Bridges & Mac-Mansions

Bridges bridges and more bridges

Planning planning and more planning

Wind direction here and there, …

Today was a day of bridges and more bridges! Timing was the name of the game.  If you leave one bridge you see how many miles to the next bridge then figure your speed (which you keep having to calculate statue miles to nautical miles) – we drive by knots… (also referred to as nautical miles NM and for some  silly reason the florida waterway chart book is in miles. Silly silly – who decided that?

So if you leave one place and your next bridge is 4 miles away how many NM or how many knots do you have to go? (It is a difference of 10.1 percent.) Our boat is happy at 5 knots while motoring.  So we make 2.5 knot every half hour.  The bridges seemed to be against us in timing. We need to hustle our chubby bubby by plowing through the water (hey did you like my reference to snow there? “plowing” - ha ha ha)

So we need to be going almost 6 knots or more which to sustain would be horrible for gas mileage ( or diesel mileage my father would correct me – I could use the word fuel and avoid the whole gas vrs gasoline vrs diesel anyway I digress… it was good humor to me cuz growing up with my dad he was often correcting me… it was out of love so not to make a fool of myself at a gas station, I’m sure.)

Back to the bridges, they were all different distances and each time you come to a bridge you hale a guy mostly or gal in a cute tower.  Most are happy and pleasant and even sweet they will poke their head out of the tower and smile and wave, “Nice boat – have a safe trip – etc”  I even had one person say to me!! , “come on through Captain.” Of course I waved the most to him.

Some it seems we are bothering them… others seem to not care if we call or not… so then we didn’t call one guy he scolded us a bit in a way. I guess we just never know.

Motoring down Palm Beach through to Miami are rows and rows of and rows of huge houses! They just keep getting bigger and bigger! They are on a canel (ICW) It is so mind boggling! Its like a Disney ride… you can hear it now… la la It’s a small world after all… it’s a small world after all… it’s a small small world… la la Yes going down the ICW is like going on a ride at Disney.  Tomorrow I think I will have been play that song just for me.

Now we are planning for a weather window… well it is not perfect.  If we didn’t have to get somewhere and if we weren’t behind schedule we would just hang out in Miami.  We are behind due to my gall bladder testing stuff. Grrr to gall bladders.  Since I shall have a continual tummy ache I have named her Miss Gally.  There are some foods that miss Gally would not want me to eat.

For the most part it is calming down.  I have a few nights where I wake up with a side ache. It is so hard to get old!

Oh back to weather… there is a front coming through tomorrow with some big winds and actually we have to poke our head out to the atlantic cuz there is one bridge that is fixed at 56 feet clearance and we are 60 feet… so well you do the math.. we are not going to do the limbo with our boat.

Wednesday the tail end of this front will be ending and a calm (if you can call it that) will be heading in for 24-48 hours) just enough to get us to bimini where we can evaluate the next leg of the trip to Nassau.

Since some of you out there wonder what we eat… well we are still in civiliation and we are not like other yatchers where you stop and eat out… we are like camping on our boat.  As we have refrigeration we eat better.  Before we took off Charlotte took me to the fresh market to get produce.

So we have had Pam’s special supper… onions, veggies, garlic glove, ginger, in light oil seasoned and add meat like polish sausage.  It is amazingly yummy.  Better than any restaurant expect that I had to cook it.  Tonight I went on strike and just felt like making me food for myself and not the boys (ben and dad). I made me oatmeal and sliced apples.  For lunch I made tuna fish sandwiches with tomatoes for breakfast I made eggs and cheese.  Quite the gourmet! 

As produce gets low it will be like being in the BWCA.

All is well at work.  Thanks gals and Damon! I might have to add Tom too from Garden for all his worrying about jobs.  It’s all good. I got a lot of work done today! I had a strong wifi so I tried to get as much accounting stuff and reconciling done as I could get done in a few hours! I love my new office.

Well you all have fun in the snow and don’t forget to going skiing for me or sledding or walking the dog or cat in the snow!