Journey to Staging

While the maintenance guys were still on board, we took the finally repaired engine out for a sea trial. All was working well, so we knew we would be headed south soon! We turned back to bring them back to the dock, waited for them to drop some extra parts off to us, took our last minute trash, and were on our way. 

It was about a 10 hour journey, but luckily, it was also game 5 of the Stanley Cup! So far, Avs were leading the series 3 games to 1. We had the game streaming on my phone and the Bluetooth on so we could hear it throughout the boat on the speakers. Roo fell asleep in her bed, while the other 4 of us watched. Moose fell asleep before the third period, so I didn't break the news to him about the loss until sometime the next morning.

All of the kids were asleep by the time we got to our anchorage in Lake Worth, a little after 1 AM. After the anchor was set, I transferred everyone to their beds while Ben got the generator running to turn on the air conditioning. For some reason, the AC would run and then shut off. Knowing we were planning on getting an early start in the morning, my brain kept thinking about how the amount of sleep he and I would be running on was rapidly decreasing. I kept wondering if he should fix the AC and cross to the Bahamas on minimal sleep or if he should go to sleep, with the air broken, needing to scramble and figure out parts and repairs in the Bahamas or possibly delaying the trip another day or few days... again. Ben wound up changing some connections to get the AC to finally work consistently and we finally went to sleep around 5. Shortly before 7, we were woken up by all of the sport fishers speeding by, leaving us to violently rock in their wake.