On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:02:52 -0400, you wrote: >> We've not been to Andros, but as Lee says, you need a weather window, and >> for us >> (slow sailboat) it usually takes us overnight to go from the upper Keys to >> Bimini, and two more days to get across the Banks to Nassau. > > >Rosalie, I am not sure what size boat you have.. I used to sail an Ericson >27. I would leave Rodriguez Key at the bottom of Key largo >about 3 or 4am.. Bimini is ony 56miles NE.. it usually took me about 12-15 >hours go get there.. not two days..
It didn't take me 2 days to get to Bimini - just overnight. What was 2 days was getting across the banks to Nassau. > >56 miles at 4 knots is 14 hours.. even in bad weather I never went over 18 >when I had to drop back to 3 knots due to >wave or current action.. >YMMV >fair winds > grandma Rosalie S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD CSY 44 WO #156 http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id1.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
