If your mast is less than 50’ you can take the ICW all the way to Carabelle.
If not, then you will have to go out via Pickens Pass (Pensacola). You can stop at Destin but the entrance tends to be very shallow. And if your mast is over 50’ you will have to go out again. Another stop is
Panama City, but again if mast doesn’t allow, you will have to go back out until Port St Joe where you can go in via the Gulf
Canal and take the ICW to Apalachicola and go from there to Carabelle inside the islands.
Carabelle is the last stop of inland ICW, from there you can short hop along the coast, Steinhatchee, Cedar Key, but the
water is quite shallow. We always have gone straight across from Carabelle to Tarpon Springs and picked up the inland ICW again from there.
Suggest you peruse
charts, go to Active
Captain, and plan according to your
draft and mast height.