On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:56:12 -0800 (PST), Skip Gundlach
wrote:

It was a great trip - I've not calculated the mileage total yet, but
we averaged very close to 6 knots including a long period of doldrums
- from the dock up the Frederica River in SSI where we helped our
traveling companions get fixed up, to anchor down in the basin,
between Miami and Miami Beach, was 63 hours exactly, including channel
transits.

Congratulations and welcome to freezing Florida. You brought that
darned cold front down with you, now turn the heat back on. :-)

About the only free advice that I would offer up is that rather than
enter Miami at night, I would have stopped at Palm Beach, anchored for
the night, rested up, and sailed onto Miami the next day. Palm Beach
is an good inlet with a convenient anchorage right off to port after
you enter - easy in, and easy out the next morning with everyone nice
and fresh.