"Wayne.B" wrote
It is not a good trip for the inexperienced.

And that goes for the boat as well. When we bought our boat I planned
to fly out to Detroit and sail it the length of Lake Erie a few days
later. It had a great survey and had been owned by serious cruisers
who lived on it all summer each year. We had it trucked for other
reasons. When I got into the refit here in Maine, I found myself
saying often to myself, "Gawd, what a disaster that would have been."

If you want to sail the boat back, plan on a couple weeks working on
it with a couple in reserve. Everything takes longer when you are
away from home, your workshop, stores you know, etc. Then do at least
a week of shakedown before tackling a trip that far from a harbor of
refuge. Even in a brand new boat just out of the shop you would want
a week to be sure everything is working before getting that exposed.

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Roger Long