Next message: Lance Gray: "Re: [world-cruising] Routing - Palm Beach to Newport"
Thanks for the response. Figured going to Bermuda might make it a shorter number of miles. And a nice place to stop mid-trip. I can understand the appeal of the Stream. Have done the Bermuda races several times, and I know it can be a friend, or an enemy, depending.
dewey henry <> wrote: Hey Lance.My friend bought a 47ft cat and we went from the Bahamas to Ft.
Pierce.Then we rode the Gulf Stream up to the Chesepeake.Folling the gulf
stream up to Rhode Island will be a shorter trip and also give you a 2 or 3
knot kick in the butt all the way.Also,if a storm comes up you arn't very
far offshore and can duck in for cover.The wind will almost always be near
your beam and provide for a better sail.If you have a computer check out the
sites for the gulfstream and set your course according.If you want i can
email you lat and long positions courses for the trip and you can talk to
other sailors to see if it is fesable for you.I have close tp 75.000 miles
sea time all over the world and am still VERY causious about trip
planning.Letme know.Dewey
>From: Lance Gray <>
>Reply-To:
>To: cruising <>
>Subject: [world-cruising] Routing - Palm Beach to Newport
>Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
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>Planning on making the trip from Florida to Rhode Island the end of May.
>Never done the routing on this one. Sailing a 48 ft very seaworth cutter.
>
>Better to go Lake Worth Inlet to Bahamas and then to Bermuda, and then on
>to Newport?
>
>Or is it better to go Lake Worth Intlet to Norfolk to Newport (around
>Montauk)?
>
>Does one route take better advantage of the stream?
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