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We had anchored right in front of the lock to we had to be awake and ready when the lock opened for business at 7:00 AM. We made it to the last lock before the lake (at Moore Haven) by about 11:00 AM and locked thru with no problem. The Waterway then follows the edge of the lake for a few miles before heading across the lake near Clewiston. This was were the shallow spots were located.
As we headed off shore away from Clewiston we found ourselves "stuck" behind some sort of large workboat, maybe making about 4 or maybe 5 knots. I was anxious to pass, but a bit nervous about venturing too far out of the channel as we passed. But I can be a bit impetuous, so gave it ago. As we approached the work boat I started to realize that we were being sucked towards her port rails. I tried to ease away using the rudder, without much success. As we were getting dangerously close, I used our bow thruster to try and push our bow away. The turbulence alongside the work boat was simply sucking us in ad I could not control it so I had to back off power and slip back behind. So we followed until reaching the deeper part of the lake.
On the other side of the lake we locked back into the Okeechobee canal that would take us to the east coast thru Stuart and finally back into the eastern Intracoastal Waterway.
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