Fl. Circumnavigation Trip Pics - Page 4

PressureDrop · #31 05-20-2010, 08:14 AM

awesome slide show denny!!

One question: what is the cost (if any) for transiting the locks across the state?

Islandtrader · #32 05-20-2010, 10:26 AM

I will answer that question....your tax payer dollars at work ZERO.

You can boat around the entire eastern part of the United States, and go through 50+ locks and the only thing it will cost you is your time.

So sometimes we do get some benefit, but for how much longer is anybody's guess. [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

ledfoot · #33 05-20-2010, 11:10 PM

Thanks so much for the pictures and the excellent narrative. The trip brought back memories, my father and I did a similar trip except we started in Sarasota, headed south to Key West,and then up the east coast & through the ditch. We had perfect weather, I think it was March of 2003. We were in a 29' Sea Ray with twin 350mpi I/O's that never missed a beat. Not a great boat, but certainly a great trip. Thanks again, that really makes me want to do it again!
-Jeff

ct9amr · #34 05-20-2010, 11:16 PM

That was great!
Thanks for sharing, hopefully someday I can make the trip around as well.
Is spring the best time to try this?

Bushwacker · #35 05-21-2010, 11:16 AM

I think winter or early spring is generally the best for the stretch from Sanibel to Flamingo because of the bug factor. However that's all open relatively shallow water so 20-25 kt winds from S, SW or W will create steep breaking waves pretty quick. You don't want to be caught out there in a 20' boat in those conditions! This year we had several cold fronts come through in March and early April, so we delayed trip to start in mid-April and then ran into lot's of bugs! Moral is that you can't have everything perfect! Decided I'd rather put up with a few bugs than nasty weather and unsafe boating conditions!

eggsuckindog · #36 06-11-2010, 02:31 PM

Quite a trip, we are just in the testing stage and couldn't anything that long but Seafari is perfect for it.

We were just down at Cayo last weekend trying out my sleeping quarters, they worked great actually but 2 nights is max.
Did get a bit buggy anywhere close to land as there was literally no wind, we stayed the first night inside Cayo but outside the anchorage - looking for enough air to at least blow out a candle LOL. Next night was at Little Redfish Pass - still no wind, I mean 0.
Will have to hook up with the other guys down there next time, Susan wants to stay at Cabbage Key maybe.
We put in at Venice and ran down and it was an easy ride both car and boat to BG, between fishing Wed. -117mi and that trip 138 I put some mileage on too.
For any Merc owners - on the fishing trip in dead flat water I got 2.65mpg - 117/44gal - 45 gal tank [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

and about 2.4mpg on the Cayo trip -