Lake Worth, Singer IS, Palm Beach, FL

April 20-24, 2010

We got an early start heading to Lake Worth Inlet. The wind was supposed to be decent, but of course, the forecast was wrong. We had 5kts or under for most of the morning. In the afternoon, the wind piped up so we were able to motorsail. We arrived about 3 p.m. (1500) at an anchorage adjacent to singer IS and just north of the Blue Heron Bridge. we attempted to anchor but a live-a-board suggested where we were was too shallow toward shore. He said that an empty mooring could be used because he knew the owners were to be gone for some time. We took the mooring. After making the boat shipshape and putting the dinghy into the water and attaching its engine, we showered and called our friends to pick us up at a nearby dock at the park at the foot of the Blue Heron Bridge. They live only a few blocks from where the boat was. We had a good time and a delicious dinner with Rick and Cindy Drum, who we met in Aleuthra last summer. we enjoyed relaxing in their lovely home and beautiful garden. We also viewed some of their pictures taken last summer.

Charlie needed to refill one of his difficult prescriptions, so we called their Walgreens and placed an order which should be ready the next morning. we met Cindy and Rick and his son, John at the Tiki Restaurant at Rivera Beach Marina for a delicious lunch. Rick, John and Charlie went off to the marine store for supplies. Cindy and I went shopping. We met back at their

place where we are another delicious dinner.

We had called a refrigeration repair place and they were supposed to show up but had called and told us we would have to be in a marina, so the next morning we moved the boat to the Rivera Beach Marina where we also filled up our fuel tanks and had a pumpout. Charlie and I had lunch there again waiting for the repairman to call. The repairman came mid-afternoon and we thought he fixed the freezer/refrig leak and recharged it with freon; but the freezer never got to the temperature it was when he arrived (17 degrees). Instead it hovered in the 20's. Another Tayana 42 owner on the same dock where were tied up introduced himself and offered us a ride to the Walgreens and a grocery store. That is when we discovered that the prescription had not come in, maybe had not even been ordered. That meant that we had to stay another day in Lake worth area to wait for the prescription. We had Rick, Cindy and John for cocktail hour that night so John could tour our boat.

The next morning we got a call that the prescription was in. Rick gave Charlie a ride to the Walgreens to pick it up his prescrition which was finally there and not lost in the internet ether. We spent the rest of the day getting the boat ready to leave. We had the other Tayana owner over for cocktails that night. We also toured each other's boats and compared likenesses and differences. We got to bed early so we could leave early the next morning.