Good News, Bad News

While waiting for news from Bulldog on the repairs to my outboards, we took a day trip to Ft. Lauderdale's RiverWalk area. While there, feeling quite boatless, we opted to take a 1.5 hour tour boat trip of the area (I can just see Jim B. at the helm of this boat.) Boats, boats, boats everywhere! The majority seem to be gold-platers but a variety of smaller boats as well -- but we did not see any C-Dories.

Here is a link some photos taken from the tour boat. Note particularly the very retro or art deco or Buck Rogers boat we saw twice, the second time under tow by two mini-tugs. Apparently it is cheaper to pay these tugs $1000 to tow you on the river than to risk the liability of a collision -- and it is crowded and narrow enough that is a real possibility!

Ft. Lauderdale

Yesterday we drove around Lake Okeechobee. For the most part, very boring!

The bad news from Bulldog: Not only did the shaft and gears of the starboard motor expand, at a potential cost of $2200, but they also found that I bent the shaft of the port motor at a cost of $600. The good news: the starboard motor is covered under warranty! The not-so-good news: $882 is owed to Bulldog. Ouch! The good news: we pick up the boat tomorrow (Friday) morning!

We're headed up to St. Petersburg and then after a few days there to Apalachicola.