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3 Marathons to Marathon...and on to Key West

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We departed Lighthouse Point January 29 under still windy conditions with an intermediate destination of Fort Lauderdale, only 2 hours south (but 6 bridges) for two reasons.   First, Tristan's girlfriend Dom was joining us on the boat for a couple of days, and we wanted to give it another day for the wind to drop, which was forecast.  Friends of hers also joined us for the day trip to FLL. Second, and more important, was that we were stopping there to see a hockey game that night, Montreal Canadiens at Florida Panthers. The games are played in Sunrise, on the west side of the city.  Tristan still had his rental car so the 4 of us made use of that, and dropped the car at the airport on the way home, and then Uber. The following day we headed south, thru Miami, and another 14 bridges, fortunately only 8 of which needed to open for us.  The wind had indeed finally dropped which made for a good trip for the 30 mile run down to a city marina in Coral Gables on  the west s