Caribbean to New England

[Ken Cobb]

I am fascinated by those cruisers who winter in the Caribbean and who summer in New England, moving their boats northward by way of Bermuda in the Spring.For those of you who do this, or know anything about it, I have two questions:1. Are there enough people doing this to make small convoys or fleets possible for the trip north in the Spring?2. Do they risk going the same route back in the Fall (hurricane season), or do they usually hug the American coast on the return trip? Or do they just wait until November, after the hurricane season, to start back?

 

[Ron]

A question for Ken

Why would anybody want to convoy to NE or any place else?? I would hate to be tied up with a bunch of boats going that far.

 

[John Visser]

Well...

...if you r boat sinks, at least there will be witnesses. In some locales, they call it a race (Newport/Marion to Bermuda being the "biggie.")

 

[John Visser]

I'll ask

There are quite a few snow birds in my marina, I helped with lines for a couple of power boaters who had jsut docked after making the trip form Florida. I don't know if they took the Bermuda route or the intracoastal waterway.jv

 

[Ron]

John

Now a race is 'nother whole deal. See you at the starting line..... Ron/KA5HZV

 

[Ken Cobb]

Mutual safety

Ron, on a 900-mile passage (St. Thomas to Bermuda) the knowledge that several other boats were making the same passage at the same time, and being in radio contact with them, would be useful if anyone had a boat problem.