We were nicely anchored in North Lake Worth when all of a sudden Claude wakes me up rather brutally saying that the boat was sinking, this was at 11.15 pm. We had a big list to starboard. Immediately we looked at the bilge and the lazarette yet no water. I then turn on the instruments to find that we were in less than 6 feet of water. During the night a cold front came through and shifted the boat into shallow water. We were hard on the bottom and there was nothing we could do except go back to bed and wait for high tide then move the boat to deeper water which we did at 7 this morning. Kinda strange, felt like we were heeled over in 15 knots of wind yet we were stationary. Luckily we were 15 minutes from low tide so this was as far as we would list

We hailed Mar-A-Lago because of their proximity to us to advise them of our situation because if they swung with a wind shift we could have collided given that we would not be shifting with the wind. They were very re-assuring and were glad for the heads-up.

Good grief, we did laugh about it that night as the boat slowly righted itself.

Today we are dealing with a cold front and winds out of the North. We plan to leave tomorrow am and head to Stuart and enjoy that really great town that is boater friendly. By the way, Brian on Mar-a-Lago informed us that the yellow estate on the East side is Jack Nicklaus' house and that Tiger keeps his mega Yacht across the way. We are in between maybe that cash will stick to us!!!!!!!

Given that Calude and I had no more than 2 hours of sleep, an early dinner and early to bed will be a luxury. No more drama please.

See you in Toronto is a few weeks.

Claude now has his former role, got confirmation today. Great news

And I have been appointed to the Institute of Corporate Directors for York region as a committee member overseeing governance, planning and more. Really excited by this but our first meeting is April 2nd and I have to figure out how to attend the meeting.

The adventures continue.

Bruce Hannah
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