Basically I'm looking for someone to tell me that I am suicidal, and that I have a 1 in 328 chance of surviving.
This is something I has been haunting me for a while and I'm starting to get the ambition and the funds to pull it off.
From Ft. Lauderdale to the Bimini Islands in the Bahamas its 47 miles.
From the Bimini Islands to the Andros Island it is 98 miles.
From Andros Island to Nassau its another 53 miles.
The farthest I've been off shore on a beach cat was about 5 miles, I felt pretty small. But I think if you broke it up into 3 days there and 3 days back it would be pretty do able. Short of a storm kicking up and blowing us out into the Atlantic and magically not hitting any land before hand. The 50 mile stretches don't scare me, I've done that easily on an lake in a day, but the almost hundred miles of open water in the 2nd leg sounds scary. The 3rd leg would be 20miles tops being out of sight of land.
Obviously I don't want to do this all alone. I do have an adventurous, (ie similarily stupid) friend who would probably be game for this. We'd do it on my FXone. Probably want to add a jib just to get as much sail up as possible if needed, or usable. We'd probably want to bring a gallon of water for each person, for each day. Some food, a tent, very basic camping stuff.
I don't know, dumb? Or have people done this? Sounds scary to me, which gives it its appeal.
It would have been a 68 mile trip. I have done that crossing in a 27' Corsair tri in 8 hrs 5 min. In different monohulls 26' - 68' it has been 10 -22 hours dependent on the wind direction & speed.
