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D: One example is a friend who sailed SABRINA, a Flicka 20, through the western Bahamas. Once you are there (or most anywhere else, it seems) you'll be amazed at what folks manage to cruise in. Another example is a 8m (25') Swedish boat that recently cruised the Patagonia channels and is relaxing in Chile. A 10 footer locked through the Panama Canal with Beth Leonard and her partner while they were circumnavigating on SILK...and it was being sailed from Europe by an elderly gent who was headed to the Pacific. Jack
D: One example is a friend who sailed SABRINA, a Flicka 20, through the western Bahamas. Once you are there (or most anywhere else, it seems) you'll be amazed at what folks manage to cruise in. Another example is a 8m (25') Swedish boat that recently cruised the Patagonia channels and is relaxing in Chile. A 10 footer locked through the Panama Canal with Beth Leonard and her partner while they were circumnavigating on SILK...and it was being sailed from Europe by an elderly gent who was headed to the Pacific. Jack
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Lots of 22 (and under) footers have crossed the Atlantic or even circumnavigated. The short hop to the Bahamas has probably been done by thousands of boats that size. There are folk who cruise the Bahama's pretty extensively in a Paradox (14' Micro Cruiser) with two on board. If interested check out: http://www.microcruising.com/ I have heard that a guy even sailed a sunfish from Florida to Bimini. I can't verify that it is true. If it is true, I assume that he picked his day VERY carefully. My point is that someone could make the crossing in just about any boat. That doesn't mean that everyone should or that you don't have to pick your departure day very carefully. Folks in MUCH larger boats often wait for weeks for the right weather to make the crossing. Pete
Lots of 22 (and under) footers have crossed the Atlantic or even circumnavigated. The short hop to the Bahamas has probably been done by thousands of boats that size. There are folk who cruise the Bahama's pretty extensively in a Paradox (14' Micro Cruiser) with two on board. If interested check out: http://www.microcruising.com/ I have heard that a guy even sailed a sunfish from Florida to Bimini. I can't verify that it is true. If it is true, I assume that he picked his day VERY carefully. My point is that someone could make the crossing in just about any boat. That doesn't mean that everyone should or that you don't have to pick your departure day very carefully. Folks in MUCH larger boats often wait for weeks for the right weather to make the crossing. Pete
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i have sailed there in a fingulf 27, and i would like to take my new oday22 down there, with good weather and good instruments it would be easy, without good nav or an ill equipped boat, a good day to bimini would turn into an epic as soon as you enter the gulf stream.
i have sailed there in a fingulf 27, and i would like to take my new oday22 down there, with good weather and good instruments it would be easy, without good nav or an ill equipped boat, a good day to bimini would turn into an epic as soon as you enter the gulf stream.
I have a friend.....
that use to make that trip in a 23 footer every year for several years in a row. Then, the last trip was a breaker, he and two crew members survived a storm that lasted 12 hours with 15-18 foot waves crashing all around them. He said the ocean was just white foam and when the boat would climb a wave it would barely make it to the top, then almost as if someone jerked the floor out from under you, it would fall into the middle of the backside of the wave and felt like the boat would break in half. He picked bad weather to begin with which was asking for trouble, but, his boat survived as where a 45 footer sank in that same storm. So, maybe size has less to do with it than skill and luck. Pick good weather and have good sailing skills to get you there alive, oh, and good luck.
that use to make that trip in a 23 footer every year for several years in a row. Then, the last trip was a breaker, he and two crew members survived a storm that lasted 12 hours with 15-18 foot waves crashing all around them. He said the ocean was just white foam and when the boat would climb a wave it would barely make it to the top, then almost as if someone jerked the floor out from under you, it would fall into the middle of the backside of the wave and felt like the boat would break in half. He picked bad weather to begin with which was asking for trouble, but, his boat survived as where a 45 footer sank in that same storm. So, maybe size has less to do with it than skill and luck. Pick good weather and have good sailing skills to get you there alive, oh, and good luck.
no wave too tall, no boat too small
Took a 15' Whaler from Miami to Dry Torgugas (not smart) than a 24' boat from Venice FL to Havana. It all depends on the quality of the boat, crew and good seamanship... Have fun over there.
Took a 15' Whaler from Miami to Dry Torgugas (not smart) than a 24' boat from Venice FL to Havana. It all depends on the quality of the boat, crew and good seamanship... Have fun over there.
wanna buy 1 thats been there done that
i haVE A 22 RHODES THATS BEEN ALL OVER north american east coast
i haVE A 22 RHODES THATS BEEN ALL OVER north american east coast
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