Jim, We did two circuits on the ICW in 2007 and 2008 and on the second swing south, went down to Key Biscayne. We went to NO NAME HARBOR there and weather for next day was good to make the gulf stream crossing over to N. Bimini Island.
We stayed there for about a week, then in good weather and with a full moon ran across the banks (we could see our shadow at night on the bottom). We left N Bimini around 3 or so and went all night and arrived in Nassau around ten am the next morning. After waiting for my brother to fly into Nassau, we headed out for the Exuma keys, starting at the North end and taking ten days to go all the way to Georgetown at the bottom, where my brother flew back. We waited for a weather window (called by Chris Parker on our HF radio -- now 4045 on SSB at 6:30 all mornings but Sunday), then went to Mayaguana island... After a 4 day wait for weather we went direct to Turks and Caicos, then a wait, then direct to Bocoron, PR (with a $110 Dom Rep customs 1 hr stop for topping off tanks). We cleared into Puerto Rico and went to Ponce over night, then next day went 21 hours straight overnight to St Thomas! Van Sant's Gentleman's Guide to Passages South is spot on in my book. When we go back to the US in three weeks we will hopefully be able to take advantage of the wind blowing us in the FL keys direction. Ed PS - a recent column on the Web featured us at www.wesleyvaclav.blogspot.com had a picture of our boat featured. The web column covers sports so we may be a couple items down the list by now, Titled: This is the way to do it. On Apr 2, 2010 11:52am, jim sims <[email protected]> wrote:
Trying to get down to the southern caribbean myself - which route did you take to get down/ How far down did you go?
thanks
jim
s/v/ Nekkid Joy III
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