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01-11-2013, 03:11
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#271
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cruiser
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: medusa NY
Boat: Tayana Surprise 45 schooner "Union Pacific"
Posts: 2,097
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
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Originally Posted by pbiJim
Unless all the rum & cute girls are on the slow boat.
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the only women on the trip will be on my boat :P
its not as great as it sounds, its my wife, and sister in law.
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01-11-2013, 03:13
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#272
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cruiser
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: medusa NY
Boat: Tayana Surprise 45 schooner "Union Pacific"
Posts: 2,097
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
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Originally Posted by tomdidit
Safe trip, but could you do SPOT so we can watch?
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the spot is about $400 for the first year, with tracking updates. enough donations, and i will get one!
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01-11-2013, 04:30
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#273
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CF Adviser Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Virginia
Boat: Island Packet 380, now sold
Posts: 8,942
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
Scoobert,
Here's some NOAA info on ocean currents. To expect that you'll not have any adverse currents is just a little bit optimistic. Even if you avoid the main current of the Gulf Stream, you should be aware that it spins off many eddies. You will lose 1 or 2 knots SOG if you get on the wrong side of one of them.
Ocean Prediction Center
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01-11-2013, 05:04
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#274
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cruiser
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: medusa NY
Boat: Tayana Surprise 45 schooner "Union Pacific"
Posts: 2,097
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
that is exactly what my charts show.
we will head to the last marker off NJ, then in a rhum line for Cape Hatteras.
according to the images you just posted we will be in the dark blue the entire way.
if the weather is bad on the cape, we will go inside, a no-brianer, then head down to FL, still being in the blue.
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01-11-2013, 05:35
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#275
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
Boat: 63 custom alloy sloop,macwester26,prout snowgoose 37 elite catamaran!
Posts: 10,594
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
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Originally Posted by scoobert
that is exactly what my charts show.
we will head to the last marker off NJ, then in a rhum line for Cape Hatteras.
according to the images you just posted we will be in the dark blue the entire way.
if the weather is bad on the cape, we will go inside, a no-brianer, then head down to FL, still being in the blue.
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who would have thought it was that easy in november
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01-11-2013, 05:55
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#276
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Toronto
Boat: CS36Merlin, "La Belle Aurore"
Posts: 7,557
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
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Originally Posted by atoll
who would have thought it was that easy in november
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On paper it is.
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Toronto in summer, Bahamas in winter.
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01-11-2013, 08:35
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#277
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Avalon, NJ
Boat: Albin 40 double cabin Trawler
Posts: 1,886
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
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Originally Posted by Vasco
On paper it is.
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even easier in the internet...
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01-11-2013, 08:35
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#278
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 322
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
you have to start someway, all the best, safe passage.
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01-11-2013, 10:29
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#279
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: On the boat, somewhere in Australia.
Boat: Swanson 42 & Kelly Peterson 44
Posts: 9,126
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
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Originally Posted by carstenb
Maybe yours has won a couple of handicapped races - but that does not make it a racing boat. Just proves it has a really high handicap in comparison with the other boats in the race.
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So true, we won a significant 35 mile race across the Gulf St Vincent against 45+ footers in ideal conditions in our 20 foot Austral. This was DESPITE the fact that they had all run out of booze and gone to bed by the time we finished. And I sure don't call that Austral a racing boat, even if her name is engraved on a 100 year old trophy.
Matt
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01-11-2013, 10:35
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#280
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Traverse City, Mi
Boat: Catalina 34MKII
Posts: 113
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
So your wife, your sister in law, and you are your crew? You have already said that your wife has even less experience than you, does your sister in law have sailing experience? And, does she know what she is getting into?
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03-11-2013, 00:04
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#281
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Marathon FL
Boat: Endeavour 35, 1984,
Posts: 937
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The more I'm reading your posts, in that thread or in others, or your blog, and seeing the pictures, I'm convinced neither you nor your boat are ready for this trip offshore.
Every time somebody give you the sound advice to postpone until you are ready you are putting your head in the sand.
Are your kids coming with you?
I suppose so.
Don't play with their lives.
For their sake don't do it.
Please.
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05-11-2013, 08:30
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#282
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Charleston SC, USA
Posts: 149
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
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Originally Posted by Alecadi
...sound advice to postpone until you are ready you are putting your head in the sand.
Are your kids coming with you?...
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I am not an experienced sailor, so my words mean nothing here..but, seems to me that this endeavor can only end badly, either way it goes. One way is for something bad to happen since this person seems to not care about the advice of others. The other way is for the trip to go off without a hitch and he gets a more inflated ego. That will result in bigger trips without proper experience..
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05-11-2013, 08:34
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#283
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cruiser
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: medusa NY
Boat: Tayana Surprise 45 schooner "Union Pacific"
Posts: 2,097
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
This will not be an eventful trip. It will be a fun 3 days offshore, followed by 2 weeks of coastal cruising.
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05-11-2013, 08:42
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#284
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Long Island's North Shore
Boat: 1997 Catalina 42 MkII
Posts: 165
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
Quote:
Originally Posted by scoobert
This will not be an eventful trip. It will be a fun 3 days offshore, followed by 2 weeks of coastal cruising.
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So NOT 5 days.
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05-11-2013, 08:51
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#285
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cruiser
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: medusa NY
Boat: Tayana Surprise 45 schooner "Union Pacific"
Posts: 2,097
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Re: Transit time? NY-FL
Quote:
Originally Posted by annsni
So NOT 5 days.
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We are going inside the cape.
But nj to the cape is outside.
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