>working on sv to be named later.. she keeps telling me she is named >Evangeline.. but I keep telling her it won't fit the transom.. Fred looks >better.. :P
Just shorten it to "Eve" and name the dink "Adam", "Apple", "Snake" ???? Steve Weinstein S/V CAPTIVA 1997 Hunter 376, Hull #376 Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY All outgoing mail protected by VIPRE A/V ----- Original Message ----- From: 'bella To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Test - Anyone There? Well from about Mid January to the End of April being out ON the Gulf is not the wisest course... it is a wide shallow bay to to speak and the waves.. are NOT like the Atlantic. You truly have to time your time out there by the fronts that come thru... A good rule of thumb is to watch what is in New Orleans.. it will hit St Pete roughly 24 hrs later.. roughly... IF you have to leave to go from point A to B... time it so that the second the front has passed you can make your turned to go wherever and use the winds to push you along... however going out into the middle of the gulf of mexico in winter after a storm can be foolhardy. One weather deal that NOAA won't mention in thier broadcasts is that from about Mid December to the end of February we get cold fronts that march down the peninsula, stall over the Straits of Florida and then come back north as a warm front.. and slam into a cold front somewhere from the Keys to North Fla... the resulting weather is heinous in its nastyness. It's how we get those tornados that get reported in jan/feb every yr.. The sailing between fronts is glorious however.. those sunny clear, almost warm days... it is tourist season in the keys so the prices are up... please to note...when the coasties put out small craft warnings... they mean exactly that.. up here in the Chessie, that means there is wind on the bay... heed those warnings.. Did you mention going from fla to mexico? hop off from key west...swing down south towards cuba (and have a chat with the coasties for being so close while you are at it) and then head up towards Isla Mujeres.. Watch out for reefs... Belize has the 2nd longs living coral reef on the planet and it is not dying.. 186 miles of it.. Here are a few websites that might be of interest to some... Nat'l Data Bouy Center... you can click on any bouy on the globe and see the conditions around it.. I canot count the times I heard 'the C man bouy 100 miles off Venice fla wave ht 50 feet, wave periods.." Anything thing.. speaking of data... IN the keys you will hear 'insie and outside the reef'..inside it means the Hawk Channel... outside its teh straits of fla that run something like 3000fet deep)... wise man says to stay inside the reef miami to key west.. do NOT take the ICW from miami to key west unless you draw under 5 feet and then sometimes less than that.. http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ weather for Cuba http://www.met.inf.cu/asp/genesis.asp?TB0=PLANTILLAS&TB1=INICIAL Belize weather service http://www.hydromet.gov.bz/ http://passageweather.com/ www.southwindssailing.com <----local to fla, sailing mag much like spinsheet.. it is online for free.. read the letters to the editor they are usually a hoot.... in the back of the mag will be windroses and such for each month for whatever area that page pertains too. I cannot tell you much about nother gulf of mexico sailing.. texas and that area.. never been that far north.. nothing of interest for me.. my home area is SW Fla... I can tell you that key west or the dry tortugas to st pete is 36 hours each way in a 40 footer.. or 40+ in a smaller boat... the Tortugas is nasty an cold in winter.. NO protection when the fronts come thru.. most of us who live down there usualy go after may 1 simply due to the distance and the potential for crappy weather and all that.. Swash channel north side of Boca Grande that comes and goes...another one just north of Egmont Key on the NW chanel locals use them to cut thru to avoid having to go way the heck out to sea to get around the rocks... rocks on the north end of ana maria island that extend out about 5 miles...IF you are going up or down the GICW from the Manatee River resist the temptation to cut any corners short.... if you do, Capn Finn has the boat us franchise to tow... tell him bella said hi... be very very careful lof the bridge tender at longboat pass.. she has a tendency to drop the bridge to soon and more than a few masts have been scrunched ... it would ruin your visit to the sunshine state... NEVER tell anyone you are a liveaboard.. esp the cops, state, local, coasties... you are simply a cruiser passsing thru.. keep your head thru hulls shut at all times... inspections come out of the blue these days... and the keys are a NO discharge zone... they enforce it.. do not be surprised at a random middle of the night bording in the keys in jan.. its thier tradition to route you out of bed at 1am rummage thru your boat, run background checks on you and then leave...they have to justify all that homeland security money somehow and we are evil terrorists boaters.. of course all you vets out there... well, since Janet from the planet exposed you for the terrorists that you are.. well.... (she says tongue firmly in cheek)... I know I have forgotten something.. if you want to know more ask specifics.. my brain is not entirely cafienated at the moment.. 'bella aboard sv maja working on sv to be named later.. she keeps telling me she is named Evangeline.. but I keep telling her it won't fit the transom.. Fred looks better.. :P
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