Lake Worth, West Palm Beach

Leaving Old Bahama Bay Marina

Another long day ahead and we leave by 7:00am. We have more wind and bigger swells than forecast. Again with following seas and swells I have to hand steer most of the crossing. The swells are closely spaced at times making them rather steep, sometimes breaking on our stern sending water into our cockpit from our open walk-off stern. Did not have this problem on our last two trips, but did on both crossings on this trip. With 9 second or more between swells this is not a problem, even with very large swells, but once they get to be 7 seconds or less and following seas it becomes an annoyance. We pick up another boat called Cracker Jack (not the other Crack Jack we know) who joins us on this crossing. 

 

Approaching West Palm Beach, still lots of Sargasso seaweed

We arrive at Lake Worth around 4:00pm and anchor on the north end by 4:30pm. Nice to have this day behind us. Unfortunately, with high winds out of the north we will not be able to head back out off shore tomorrow to head north to the next inlet. To go north tomorrow we are going to be in the protected confines of the ICW.