On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:52:16 EDT, you wrote: >coming back was another story. It took us 45 hours in the gulf stream from >Cay Sol. Needless to say our weather window shut early on us and it wasn't >pretty coming back. We had 12 foots seas crashing over the top of the boat >and >high winds up to 40 knots and the stream was flowing against us. Everything >inside the boat was soaked from water coming in thru the dorades and anchor >lockers. Then we had to deal with large freighters, and cruise ships. And to >top >it all off, we blew out our mainsail. > >-Anita (Not quite full-time cruisers, but working on it!) > >_Why Knot IP 37-33_ >(http://hometown.aol.com/__121b_vBzMy6ChWt8p7pNzRzPJTzAXJXASh5Ur) >You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails ...
We've always tried to go with the Gulf Stream both ways. I figured it would be easier to go south along the coast of FL if the Gulf Stream carried us too far north. Most of the time go from Miami or Rodriguez Key to Bimini, and coming back I'm leaving from Lucaya, Grand Bahama. If it is good weather, we generally hit the Florida coast around Ft. Lauderdale and then run down along the coast from there. Once we left from West End in kind of nasty rainy weather, and there was a quite strong south east wind (good) of 25 knots, and waves were coming from the quarter and breaking under the boat. At one point we were doing better than 12 knots, but we had to turn off the depth alarm because the waves breaking under the boat was setting it off. We made it from West End to Ft. Pierce in 13 hours (92 miles). The large freighters were not so much of a problem or the 'real' cruise ships. Both of those ships have a destination and head for it, but the gambling ships were something else. They go out and hover outside the 12 mile limit. Bob decided the best way to deal with them was to head right for them. Then they go away, because they don't really have a destination, and they circle around out there. The big problem off the coast of FL is small unlighted fishing boats. _______________________________________________ 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
