Jensen Beach to Lake Worth- Outside.

Having recovered from exhaustion we basically took the evening off and missed the hugely successful Picnic on Saturday afternoon. We set the alarm for 06 double bubble for the trip back to Lake Worth. 

We were rewarded with a beautiful morning. I made us toasted Bagles with Cream Cheese and Salmon, a big pot of Coffee and untangled the mooring lines all in time for a 07:15 departure from the Jensen Beach Mooring Field.

1The route from the mooring is littered with shallows, so Peggy eased us sSE to the ICW channel the South under the Causeway bridge, easy-peasy. The local fishermen traffic was no big deal and we hugged the deepest part of the channel according to Bob423. Really no wind, and the water was mirror like until the can only go fast boats zoom past.

The turn towards the St Lucie Inlet is possibly confusing, it's around the area marked as "Great Pocket", but scanning in all direction helps the routing.  As we approached the breakwater and jetty on the outside of the inlet, a powereboat overloaded with testosterone passed on our stbd side , called out to the "sailboat" and mooned us as the flew past. Must admit, I had a brief picture of them flipping their boat, but I just smiled.

Not quick enough to capture a Pic of the Crack o doom. 

The route I followed from here was the reverse of the route we had planned to take on Friday.  Lesson learned!

The route from Lake Worth to the St Lucie Inlet was set to take advantage of the Gulf Stream Northely current. Reversing the route did not work in our favor. 

Two and a half nm out, we felt the push against our Southerly course, that was 2.5nm Northely. 

When I realized my error, I turned to the Southwest to get closer to the shore and out of the current. When you're only doing 6 knots through the water, it costs about 20 mins of travel. Grrr.

Even when we were only one half mile off shore, we still had 1.7 knots against us.

Summer Wind had left shortly after us from the mooring field and we pretty much stayed less than a mile apart all the was to Lake Worth. 

The going was smooth until about 90 minutes from our destination, then the seas picked up and it got a little bit exciting even though we were under motor for the entire trip. We had spray coming over the deck frequently but thought nothing of it.

I had reached out to the mooring owner in Lake Worth asking if there was one available for tonight. We had already booked one for Monday night. He was able to accommodate with the same ball that we had Thursday night.

I updated our route to the known location and we turned into the inlet happy to get out of the growing seas.

With Peggy at the helm, we picked up the ball first time.

With boat secure, I went below to freshen up just as Summer Wind arrived to pickup their mooring adjacent to us.

That's when I found that the hatch under the dinghy stowed on the foredeck was not fully closed.

Guess what I spent the next hour doing. Yep, Hoisting the mattress out of the boat to dry, hanging up the mattress cover  and the bag of laundry.

Surprising how quickly one can man handle a mattress out of the boat and up on deck. I just hope nobody was out with their video camera. 

OK, get on with boat life. Peggy took a hot shower and I made dinner. A real Sailing Brothers dinner: Baked beans, ham, fried bread and fried eggs. DELICIOUS! 

Time left to write up tonight's blog entry, shower, and put the v-berth bedding back together. 

Last job of the evening is to prep for our departure home in the morning.  Looks like we'll take the ditch with an early start hoping to beat the crowds out for Memorial day 2025.