If you are planning or you are aleady underway via the ICW or ocean to
mid east coast of Florida or to FL west coast north of Ft. Meyers and
to Panhandle area of NW FL and west, the best advise anyone can give
and take is to stay away. The people whose marinas and boats were
damaged do not now need your business. They need time and energy to
recover from recent storms.

For your own safety and for your boat's safety, channel markers are
often missing or moved, channels and bottoms have often changed
(sometimes dramatically) from severe silting and and so charts are
useless, debris litters the ICW and channels off of ICW. Many bascule
bridges on ICW are damaged and currently inoperative. Most marinas are
badly damaged or destroyed, electric power is still out, fuel supply
is at best spotty and uncertain, water supply and sanitary facilities
are often unavailable or tenuous, etc. Dredges and barges are working
to make repairs and to recover beached and sunken boats (thousands),
but they need space for meanueverability. They do not now need any
boat traffic to contend with.

If you still believe none of this applies to you, please stay in the
ocean and Gulf along FL coasts and head S directly to Ft, Lauderdale
or to Miami and the FL Keys or N and W in the Gulf of Mexico N of Ft.
Meyers to ports west of Mobile AL.

Most of FL is not now the place to go. Give us a chance to recover our
stressed out lives, properties and businesses. And donate to
charities!