well now that makes a whole lot more sense....I used to leave Rodriguez about 3 or 4 am.. to get into bimini about 3-5pm... there is always a 'fleet' waiting out a weather window there.. Never been to Nassau.. Abacos were always my goal... fair winds..
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Rosalie B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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 > -- It's not about the boat it's sails or rigging. It's about the freedom. http://www.slideshare.net/jacko91/these-are-my-credentials/ http://fisherhouse.org/ http://www.specialops.org/ "We are the gaurdians of a great faith. When we believe that freedom offers the best chance of peace and prosperity for all, and our desire for peace cannot be seperated from our believe in liberty." Harry J. Truman Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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