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Joined: Sat May 02, 2009 5:22 am Posts: 675 Location: Columbus, Indiana
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My buddy Eric and I sailed from St. Andrew State Park which is east of Panama City Beach, all the way to Destin and back.....really with no planning at all.....we men often called this "drink and think"..... I remembered an old hotel that I stayed at back in the '80's on the bay side next to the Fort Walton's Elk Lodge , which we targeted as an overnight place to spend the night but found it bulldozed. So we crashed in out wetsuits right on his Hobie 21SC on that abandoned property for a fews hours and left way before daylight then motored/sailed in the darkness, east all the way across Choctawhatchee Bay and into that channel that leads to West Bay. We hoped to find fuel as we ran out acrossing the bay.....but we found no place to purchase fuel.....and continued anyways under sail into the unknown.....lucky for us we found a construction crew on a barge that gave us enough fuel to motor power to West Bay where we finished our loop "around the island" as Eric called it.......his GPS logged 197 miles in 23 hours for this trip.....We should have sailed back on the Gulf and avoided that windless channel but that won't have let us do this 'round the island trip that was on Eric's bucket list.....We like long distance trips....regardless of a real plan.
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