We were going to stay another day and explore Delray Beach some more, but the winds started picking up again. We thought we might have slid at anchor just a little bit, but maybe the rode was just taught in the windy conditions. Either way, we were not going to be comfortable enough to leave the boat, so we decided to move it. We pulled up anchor at 7:45 a.m. and went back north for about two miles to get what we found to be the cheapest diesel price in the area. Just after eight o'clock we pulled up to Delray Harbor Club Marina to get just over 200 gallons, which gave us a ten cent discount per gallon.
Back underway by 8:40 a.m. and heading south, we could once again hear "Silver Lining" calling bridges. Okay, they definitely changed their name. Did it depend on which drunk was driving, or just according to whether they were getting yelled at or not. We really thought they were drunk when we saw them heading north. They ended up turning back south behind us. Then we wondered if they were just waiting for another boat to come to hail the bridge tender so they would know the name of it.
Thankfully, we got to leave them behind as we continued on to Ft. Lauderdale. We confirmed that we could come earlier than our original reservation at the New River Downtown Marina. This is one of our favorite spots. We weren't even here an hour and we were just enthralled with the activity and coordination of the traffic on this river and the size of some of the vessels.
We have decided to stay here through the Thanksgiving holiday, assuming that Biscayne Bay is just going to be a boaters nightmare this weekend. We plan to depart on Sunday and hope that most of the amateurs will be back at home by the time we want to dock at Boca Chita, another one of our favorite stops as the water gets prettier and prettier from here on south.
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