"Roger Long" wrote:

Let me be sure I've got this right. People do this for fun?

It makes me really appreicate living and cruising in Maine.

Well this was our first time down the ICW. We soon figured out which
marinas NOT to stay in. And we did it to be in warmer weather in the
winter.

Bob says that there's really not much sailing in Florida in the
vicinity of the ICW.. Some places in the Indian River, and Hawk
Channel on the ocean side of the Keys is about it. Everywhere else it
is too restricted and shallow.