Comments on: Pelican Harbor, Miami FL http://qvmarine.com/foster/pelican-harbor-miami-fl/ a marine adventure Sat, 05 Sep 2015 12:22:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.36 By: Foster http://qvmarine.com/foster/pelican-harbor-miami-fl/#comment-26948 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:39:37 +0000 http://qvmarine.com/?p=25375#comment-26948 Lets see, I’d go from Belleville Ont to Oswego NY directly across the lake. I’d wait for a calm day, but you can do it a day. From there you will go East on the Erie Canal. Depending on the weather and the locks (broken or not) this could take a week. From there you go down the Hudson to the NYC Harbor and then down to Cape May. My log shows 9 travel days and we did the outside of NJ since we had good weather.

You can go on the outside of Delaware if you want. Once you leave Cape May NJ, your next stop in Ocean City MD. From there you need to go the entire way down to Norfolk. Your 4788 has the range, you just need to get the weather for the outside run. That’s going to get you into Virgina in about 17-18 days of travel time.

Next part it the 250 miles from the top of Virgina to Myrtle Beach, at 50 miles a day it’s another 5 days. So you are now up to 22-23 days, slightly over your three weeks.

You could plan on longer days of travel, but this also says you’ll get all good travel days.

Plan B would be to take the boat into the Chesapeake and leave it there, then start the 1000 mile run to the keys from there.

]]> By: Peter Soknacki http://qvmarine.com/foster/pelican-harbor-miami-fl/#comment-26916 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:47:20 +0000 http://qvmarine.com/?p=25375#comment-26916 Hi. We are from Toronto and bought a 4788 in fall of 2013, and bringing her to Florida in 3 weeks. Last year took her from port Severn to Belleville and starting south in 2 weeks.
Some questions..
1. We only have 3 weeks to get south and think that Myrtle Beach would be a good spot to leave her til October, as will go the rest of the way to Florida in the fall.. Is this reasonable?
2. Did u go south on the east coast or inside? We are thinking of bypassing Delaware/Chesapeake and going “outside” to save some time. Do u have any experience with this?
3. Once we get south of NYC, can we go inside through New Jersey, or too shallow?
We have enjoyed reading your entries on AGLCA and know you’re a fellow pilothouse guy so any info would be helpful.
Peter

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