Our arrival in Ft. Lauderdale was a bit odd. Sure there were plenty of cruise ships in port, as usual. What was odd was that the number of mega yachts in Lauderdale was far less than normal. Not sure if the Miami Boat show has something to do with it or not.
Nonetheless, we found a spot in Lake Sylvia to drop the hook for the night. The next morning we immediately jumped into the first order of rather critical business. We'd had a minor failure of our laptop keyboard. The last several posts I'd completed were done absent the functionality of the left shift key, the Z, X, C and V keys. At first I'd thought it was not a big deal but very quickly realized that those few letters are pretty important. You can imagine that every time I tried to type .com it was suddenly .om and I needed to find a c to cut and paste in. Also Tropical Breeze suddenly became Tropial Breee. Amazing how important those few letters can be.
So we launched the dinghy and rode up to the Southport Raw Bar where we dock the dink and headed up to the shopping area. There we found an external keyboard at the local Office Depot to take care of our issue. With the work for the day complete we enjoyed lunch at the Raw Bar before heading back to the boat.
At least that was the plan. Unfortunately, the outboard was not going to cooperate and suddenly decided to not start. A local boater saw us attempting to row down the channel and was nice enough to give us a tow. Back at the Breezer Dave worked on the outboard and in short order had it purring again.
The Admiral
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