Day 41 - May 10

We are off on the "bridges from hell" trip today; from Ft Lauderdale to Lake Worth.  We decided that going outside today might be risky.  We leave around 8:30 to catch the 8:45 Las Olas bridge.  We catch up to our friends at the next bridge and for the next five bridges, we have a small convoy, two monohulls and a cat.  Our friends stop at Sands Harbor Marina for fuel so there is just two of us now going through the bridges.  We are doing well as we have hit every bridge on time, but finally we miss one and now we are waiting.  Our friends eventually catch up with us and now we have our convoy back.  It is fortunate as both of the monohulls are doing around 7 knots, (they have 35 / 40 hp while we have 25) while we are doing 6.5.  The good news is that the bridge tenders held the bridges for us slow pokes.  During our trip we had a wide spectrum of weather, hot and steamy to downpours. 

We lose the one monohull in Lake Worth as he ducked into a marina, and both of us continue on to Little Lake Worth.   We find our spot in the anchorage where we dropped the hook on the way south, and shower and have dinner.  As the sun set we are provided with a light show from the thunderstorms in the distance, which eventually show up in our anchorage.  We take out the screens and button up the hatches until the rain passes.