Heeling Blue Moon and Lake Okechobee

We made Indiantown the first night.  Not a long way from Stuart but  we had a late start and we were ready to rest.  From there, David decided we would need to heel the boat  to get under the Port Mayaca RR bridge.  Not our first rodeo with the heeling back and we were glad to have Daryl to help with the rigging.  Happily, all went well and the crossing was a piece of cake.  We reached the other side early enough that we pressed on through the Moore Haven lock and stopped for the night at the city docks, a first for us.  We had dinner at a Mexican restaurant with a super enthusiastic young owner.  The food was first rate and the service was a well.  We wish this ambition young man a world of success. 

The process of deploying the heeling bag has a lot of minor steps that make it work
Each one has to be done or you regret it.  We know from experience!

Starting to fill and lean us over.

The water was thankfully mirror smooth as you can see in this image.
The bag leaks a bit but not enough to prevent us heeling over enough
to get under the bridge.

One the bag is all set and filling, all you can do is sit and wait.  I monitor
the degree of heel as I drive.  Once we have enough we start the nail-biting
trip under the bridge.

Happiness is the low bridge in you back view with no drama-no worries.

You have to love the people who write the descriptions of things on
charts.  The Okeechobee writers were especially creative.  This isn't
grass or spoil island or anything so mundane.  This, dear reader,
is "emergent vegetation".

This is labeled as "concrete structure"  No duh!

Once across we were in the rim canal.  This is a long, straight path.

The levee is well reinforced to mitigate wake damage.  The big powerboats
roar through here throwing a lot against the shore.