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Hiya folks.
Anybody done this trip? Any recommendations, cautions, stories? I'm wanting to take a sailboat with a crewmate from Florida to BVI via Abacos, along the islands. Any input appreciated. Cheers |
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: Hiya folks. Anybody done this trip? Any recommendations, cautions, stories? I'm wanting to take a sailboat with a crewmate from Florida to BVI via Abacos, along the islands. Any input appreciated. Cheers Get Bruce Van Sant's "A Gentleman's Guide to Passages South" and read it. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org |
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BeeRich wrote in news:602a69dc-7306-4afd-b4ec-
: Hiya folks. Anybody done this trip? Any recommendations, cautions, stories? I'm wanting to take a sailboat with a crewmate from Florida to BVI via Abacos, along the islands. Any input appreciated. Cheers After I responsed, I realized that I should have asked an obvious (at least to me) question. Are you planning on doing this soon? Most people are thinking about getting their boats out of the hurricane box by this time of the season. You're talking about heading into it. Where are you going to leave it for hurricane season? -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org |
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![]() "BeeRich" wrote in message ... Hiya folks. Anybody done this trip? Any recommendations, cautions, stories? I'm wanting to take a sailboat with a crewmate from Florida to BVI via Abacos, along the islands. Any input appreciated. Cheers You won't get any valid input here. This group consists of pretenders and wannabes mostly of the small motor boat type. Few, if any, have been out of sight of land. No real sailor even attempts to do the route you've described. Why? Because it's all against the prevailing winds and currents. It can be done in a motorboat if you don't mind pounding day after day, week after week into wind and wave but a sailboat can't do it comfortably or at all. Somebody suggested reading "The Thorny Path." Don't bother! That book is a joke. It's all about waiting for periods of no wind and then using an engine to coastwise hop from port to port. Cuba plays a significant part in the route. Big engines an even greater part. No, forget about sailing from Miami to the BVIs via the Bahamas. It's unworkable. It's too long a slog to weather even for a well-found yacht such as my Swan 68. You might find yourself making good only fifty or so miles a day. What you need to do is take the "I-65 route." That is depart out of Miami and head northeast to east as the prevailing SE winds allow. Proceed on your course north of the Abacos chain (the Gulf Stream will assist your northerly progress) and keep going until you arrive at longitude 65w. (You will be close to Bermuda so if you wish to rest you might consider stopping there.) Then come about and turn south on a port tack and close haul or reach down to the BVIs. This should take you two to three weeks. Don't do it during hurricane season. Middle of May to middle of June is the time to go. Be sure you have a place to hide in the BVIs during hurricane season. Wilbur Hubbard Swan 68 |
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On May 5, 12:39*pm, Geoff Schultz wrote:
After I responsed, I realized that I should have asked an obvious (at least to me) question. *Are you planning on doing this soon? *Most people are thinking about getting their boats out of the hurricane box by this time of the season. *You're talking about heading into it. *Where are you going to leave it for hurricane season? Hi there. We are thinking of going down sometime between August and October. |
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![]() "BeeRich" wrote in message ... Hi there. We are thinking of going down sometime between August and October. What? Are you daft? That's a stupid thing to do. You're talking about the busiest part of the Atlantic hurricane season. You obviously haven't a clue. Stay home or take a cruise ship. You obviously aren't qualified to be out there sailing a small boat. -- Gregory Hall |
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On May 5, 1:11*pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote: Then how do you explain all the American boats I saw out of mainland USA when we were both in the Abacos and the Virgin Islands? What you need to do is take the "I-65 route." That is depart out of Miami and head northeast to east as the prevailing SE winds allow. Proceed on your course north of the Abacos chain (the Gulf Stream will assist your northerly progress) and keep going until you arrive at longitude 65w. *(You will be close to Bermuda so if you wish to rest you might consider stopping there.) Then come about and turn south on a port tack and close haul or reach down to the BVIs. This should take you two to three weeks. Don't do it during hurricane season. Middle of May to middle of June is the time to go. Be sure you have a place to hide in the BVIs during hurricane season. Wilbur Hubbard Swan 68 That is the route I am planning on taking. Abacos, along the top edge of the Bahamas, down Southeast towards Turks & Caicos, then bypassing DR and PR totally, right into USVI then BVI. You sure I can't stick close to the islands? Hitting Bermuda for the sake of a single tack, is a bit much. |
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![]() "BeeRich" wrote in message ... Then how do you explain all the American boats I saw out of mainland USA when we were both in the Abacos and the Virgin Islands? There is more than one way to get someplace other than the direct route as seen on a chart or map. There are many many yachts of US registry in the Bahamas and in the Virgins. That doesn't mean they all sailed there directly. Some of the motor boats maybe but sailboats - few, if any are foolish enough to attempt such a long slog against wind and current. Since you don't seem to realize this FACT it tells me you are totally unqualified to try such a thing. Forget it. That is the route I am planning on taking. Abacos, along the top edge of the Bahamas, down Southeast towards Turks & Caicos, then bypassing DR and PR totally, right into USVI then BVI. You sure I can't stick close to the islands? Hitting Bermuda for the sake of a single tack, is a bit much. You'd better CHANGE your stupid plans or you're going to end up dead. You are acting totally irrationally. You are acting like some stupid twit. You don't try what you are talking about in a sailboat even in the off-season and you are going to attempt it at the height of the hurricane season. You are an idiot! Typical of the fool who thinks sailing is something to do by brute force, without knowing the first thing about it, relying upon chance and good luck. Well, your brute force ain't squat compared to Mother Nature's brute force. And you're good luck will run out. You will probably die. WAKE UP! Wilbur Hubbard |
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BeeRich wrote in
: On May 5, 12:39*pm, Geoff Schultz wrote: After I responsed, I realized that I should have asked an obvious (at least to me) question. *Are you planning on doing this soon? *Most people are thinking about getting their boats out of the hurricane box by this time of the season. *You're talking about heading into it. *Where are you going to leave it for hurricane season? Hi there. We are thinking of going down sometime between August and October. As several other people have commented, you're nuts if you want to leave from FL and go to the BVIs at that time of the year. You're dead center in the middle of hurricane season. What would happen of you got caught in one? Where you would go? Are you prepared to lose your boat and/or life? Most people are departing those waters for safer locations. If you said that you were thinking of leaving at the end of October, then I'd say that it's a reasonable trip. However, Aug-Oct is crazy. I know several people who have made this trip in sailboats, and while it isn't fun, it's doable. The Van Sant book that I mentioned earier is a very good guide. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org |
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BeeRich wrote in
: Note that I've done the reverse (down-wind) version of this trip. Please see my web site for info. I must admit that wasn't writing logs at that point in time, so the info is sketchy. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org |
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