Tuesday morning we were out of the marina at 7:25 feeling good that we could make the 30 miles to St. Lucie Lock by 1:00. Except that it isn’t 30 miles, but more like 37 miles, a slight miscalculation. But luckily the currents were with us and no trains stopped us and we arrived at the lock at 12:20. It didn’t occur to us that the 1:00 opening would start with the eastbound traffic, but it did, so we didn’t enter the lock until 1:30. Once in the lock, the lockmaster dropped ropes to us which we pulled tighter as the water lifted the boats maybe 13’, which took what seemed like forever. It was 2:00 when we left the lock, but that 30 minutes did include four boats entering one at a time and each
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