Days 31 & 32 Jan 17 &18, 2017 Tues & Wed

Hall of Fame Marina      Ft Lauderdale, FL    Tues Jan 17, 2017

Day 31
We had another nice day to boat.  We arrived in Ft Lauderdale shortly after noon after 7 bridges.  We picked up a slip at the Swimming Hall of Fame Marina and plan to get the outboard for the dinghy worked on here.  A deck had said he lived near where the boat mechanic was so he took it to the repair shop for a fee. It should only take a few hours so we should have it back by Wed. afternoon.  The cost of a couple of hundred bucks plus what it costs to get it to the mechanic and back is the fly in the ointment.  Wrestling the motor off the back of the boat when the finger dock is shorter than the boat was a hassle  but with 3 men it got done. 
We walked over to Coconuts for dinner.  We like the food and it was close. Met some nice folks from Texas who are in the slip adjacent to ours.  

Hall of Fame Marina    Fort Lauderdale, FL    Jan. 18, 2017     Wed

We started the day with Lee washing the boat and me washing the clothes.  With 5 loads and only 2 washers and 2 dryers I spent nearly all morning in the laundry.  It was so tiny there was hardly room to open the dryer door and nowhere to sit.  I sat on the floor of the porch outside the laundry room, without a book, boring!
Lee arranged for a rental car to be delivered after 12 and it came about the time I finished laundry.  We started by picking up the outboard, then we took our propane tank we use for cooking and got it filled.  I have cooked so much I already had emptied a 10 pound tank.  Then headed to West Marine, where Lee got some parts for the head, a stainless steel catch for the snubber, and some other odds and ends.  We left something to be made for us and we went to a diner called Lester's (Lee's dads name). Ate ourselves silly and went back to West Marine to pick up our stuff. We then went to Blue Water Books.  Which had a much better selection of chart materials than West Marine. We replaced our damaged Near Bahamas chart book for a cool $75. 
It was an expensive day for us, $15 for laundry, $200 for outboard, rental car $65, $75 for chart book, $225 at W Marine and Raritan for miscellaneous parts.  We decided to stay Thur night too (another $100) to give us time to get the outboard remounted on the stern, check out an Apple Air Bk to replace our lap top that is giving Lee an ulcer, and grab a few groceries before returning the rental car around noon Friday.