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Richard Casady

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:36:34 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:56:28 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:55:10 -0400, hk wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:

My family has a square stern Grumman canoe with a sailing rig. [that
hasn't been used since the fifties] Also a three HP evinrude that is
downright scary at WOT. It could easily handle the trip sail, or
power. It isn't that far...

Casady

You think a canoe with a 3 hp outboard is sufficient for a trip from
Florida to Bimini, eh?

I think taking or even advising taking that sort of trip in a canoe is
foolish. Aside from all the other stuff that could happen, one sudden
wave breaking broadside and you are shark food.

Trip would take less than three hours.

Casady

Catastrophe could be a matter of seconds or minutes. Three hours could
be an eternity.

I do have a 22 foot sterndrive that I would use before I would use the
canoe. [The scow could sail there in less than three hours, but so
what.], My runabout doesn't really have enough deadrise. No easy fix
for that.

Casady