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For all of those sailors stuck in port, daydreaming about their next adventure...
If you could cast off today, fully provisioned on YOUR CURRENT BOAT, and time wasn't a factor, Where would you go?
I'll start it up...
Being from the tropics, I would sail up to New York City. I've never been there, and have a sister who recently moved to NY for college. It seems like a funny sailing destination at first glance, but Manhattan is an island right?
First trip - Great Lakes and the North Channel.
Second trip - Lake Erie, barge canal, East coast, Bahamas
Third trip - Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, St Lawrence to Newfoundland, cross Atlantic, to the Med.
I'm planning sailing around Maine, this summer and then down to the USVI by the end of November and the winter in the Caribbean islands. I have a little work to do and a few up grades on my boat, but don't we all.
No time like the present to get a start.
Where I really want to go, though, one day, is the south Pacific. I look at Bora Bora all of the time on Google Earth, and think about sailing there and anchoring there.
It's doable, I just have to decide if I want to devote the time and money for it.
The Admiral pointed out that the only continent we had not visited on the boat is Europe (I mentioned Antarctica but that went nowhere, she Hayes cold weather), so I guess that will be on the list.
Our biggest disappointment in the South Pacific was Bora-Bora. People were not very friendly and it was just too touristy. Moorea on the other hand we loved.
The dream for now is to head south to Florida and then to the Bahamas. Maybe even hitting many on the Caribbean Islands as well. Then someday I hope to make it to the south Pacific islands as well.
With my current boat? Gunkholing the entire Texas coast. Poking into the bays and rivers to explore. From Sabine Pass to Port Isabel and everything in between. Would take awhile but I'm sure it would be fun. Then I'd look for my next boat and adventure. Doing the Great Loop and the Bahamas is high on the list.
Panama (Boca Del Toro) for some surfing...Rowaton, Honduras....Belieze (second largest barrier reef in the world)...heck...lets just say the western caribbean/central america...probably should have just gone this trip instead of heading back north
Right now?
Current boat?
No time limit?
Head west and do a counter clockwise tour of the Great Lakes, when I get to Lake Ontario, a clockwise cruise of the lake, hitting the 1000 islands then along the south shore to the canal, down the canal, and down the east coast to the bahamas, then continue on to the dry tortugas, then over to Cuba.
We have been fully provisioned and free from responsibilities and cruising as we please for the last eleven years. We poke about seasonally from Maine in the mid-summer to the Keys and Bahamas in the winter. We usually stay in the St. Johns River of North Florida for the Thanksgiving to Christmas Hollidays with family. We have about thirty ports that we regularly return to and feel that we have a sense of community at these places. We don't use up our destinations as those that claim, "been there, done that", but we look forward to returning.
Anywhere and everywhere, meeting up with other cruisers and especially members on this forum. I have a list and plan to catch up with a lot of the old timers and regulars.
Simon, it is interesting how it goes. We found many of the people to be rude and u pleasant and mainly interested in you as a wallet with legs. Even Papeete, a large city, was much nicer. We were in Bora Bora in 2011 and the yacht club was still being renovated and closed and you could use the moorings free which was nice.
The Great Loop, going through the Trent Severn system and to the North Channel.
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