I’m sorry, Lake Worth. Too many ‘Lake’s and ‘Fort’s' on the ICW, I get confused. The houses are getting bigger, the lawns more manicured and the boats more luxurious. Am I jealous? Just a tad.

Early start again. Was a peaceful night, although it did seem to be raining pelicans at one point? Dozens of them kept dive-bombing around the boat, guess we must have been sitting on a school of fish. They’re pretty crap at fishing, didn’t see any of them catch anything.
Not so cold today but still cold enough for me to stay wrapped in a blanket. Only 44 miles today so should be in Lake Worth by 4pm, then we get a day off before making our crossing to Grand Bahama on Sunday. Good job really, as I have woken up feeling pretty unwell. May have been the curry.

It’s at times like these that you start to look at all these sleek, fast motor boats and luxury yachts and wish you had several hundred horse-power hanging out the back. This leg of the journey you want to be over as quickly as possible. Every morning we get up and noodle out to the channel, and every morning about an hour or two later the same sleek luxury yachts just fly past us and you know that you’ll arrive at the next anchorage several hours after they have had lunch, cocktails and then dinner! They look so warm and cosy in their enclosed cockpit. They’ve probably got heating, they're wearing shorts and a T-shirt, we're in 5 layers and wrapped in blankets! Keep getting overtaken by one launch in particular, ‘Thankful', a very nice looking boat that we are quite envious of, we’ve started up a bit of banter with them so every morning we have a chat as they go past. I’m sure they’ll be waiting for us in Lake Worth.

Have to say it's unusually cold right now, we don’t normally suffer this much. Tis the luck of the draw, sometimes you just have to grin and bare it in order to get to where you really want to be. It sounds awful so far and some of you must wonder why the hell we're doing this, well hopefully in a few days time you'll see why. “Watch this space” as they say.

Well we made North Lake Worth by 4.00pm and found the first anchorage we could. Sitting happily at anchor with the condo's of West Palm Beach and a bunch of super yachts as a backdrop. We're in the cheap seats with all the other poor people.

Day off tomorrow. Yippee!