On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:46:56 -0500, wrote:


Are you going south around Key West or taking the short cut under the
7 mile bridge.
Watch out for pirates, either at sea with guns or the ones ashore who
hold diesel nozzles ;-.)

There's actually a third choice under what is known as the "Channel 5"
bridge, near Matecumbe Harbor, about 20 nautical miles east of
Marathon. We'll probably go that way unless the wind blows all the
water out of Florida Bay, or we have some need to stop in Marathon.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2928/channel5bridge.jpg

Our typical route is Sanibel to Big Marco Pass, Big Marco to Channel
5, Channel 5 to the Gulf Stream and then over to Castle Rock, Chub Cay
and Nassau. From there we'll go south through the Exumas to the
Turks and Caicos, and then on to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico
and the USVI.