We moved on to Hasta La Vista on Thursday 31 July and spent the night at the dock where she had been delivered and then moved to a mooring buoy near the Fort Lauderdale City Marina in Las Olas which is in a canal that runs parallel to the beach. We were close to shops and restaurants and had a nice breeze blowing through the boat at all times.
We registered “Hasta La Vista” as an Australian vessel and because “Hasta La Vista” is a foreign vessel, we were only permitted to stay initially in Fort Lauderdale for three months. We were required to leave the US and come back in to obtain our US Cruising permit or just keep going. We decided to clear customs as soon as our Australian registration was ready and spend a week in the Bahamas and then come back in to obtain our cruising permit and have most of the work on the boat completed in Fort Lauderdale before sailing to the Bahamas and then south in November/December.
