Thread: How to cruise
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Default How to cruise

On Jan 16, 3:04*pm, Frogwatch wrote:
With my sailboat at Tarpon Springs, she is about 250 miles from the
place on lake Okechobee where I want her hauled. *So, how to get her
there. *By ICW, it is no longer than by going on the outside to Fort
Myers but on the outside one can cruise at night cutting the overall
time down. *However, I am not sure if sailing overnight is really
faster for a single handed sailor because he eventually has to stop
and sleep for a long time. (I am not sure my daughter will be with me
on this next leg of the trip).
Distance-wise, the ICW is the same as on the outside but you h


weird, rest of the post got cut off.

Basically, I am pondering whether to sail single handed on the outside
or to motor down the ICW during the day..