How long a sail from Tampa to Bimini on a 44 ft Lagoon?

[Dano42]

Hey, I am purchasing a 44 ft lagoon which I'm equipping with a mk25df 4 whip system for tank refills, sat tv, internet ect. I will be running week long charters out of Tampa for diving or regular, and was wondering how long it would take to sail to Bimini or Nassau or even up the coast to Mexico, or would I be better off just chartering down to the keys, or maybe there is a good loop I could run?

[Therapy]

Hail, it took us 8 days to get to the keys from Hudson.

[Dano42]

I'm talking from Tampa Florida

[DotDun]

~50-60 hours thru Marathon or Channel 5. More if around Key West.

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by Dano42

I'm talking from Tampa Florida

Hudson FL is 20-30 miles further north than Tampa, hence the reference by Therapy to his time to sail from there. Considering the overall distance another 20-30 miles will make less difference than the state of wind or tide during the trip.

[denverd0n]

You're not going to get from Tampa to Bimini and back during a week-long charter. No way.

I don't see diving charters from a sailboat being a very lucrative business to run out of Tampa. The diving opportunities nearby are just not all that great. There are the Keys and the Dry Tortugas, but you're going to spend more time sailing than diving if you want to get there and back in one week.

Time to rethink the business plan.

[Tingum]

Wow, If you need help figuring this out, should you really be putting yourself out as a professional?

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by Tingum

Wow, If you need help figuring this out, should you really be putting yourself out as a professional?

[Tellie]

You're asking sailing time or motoring time? Worlds apart. No one can give you accurate sailing time. Ya need wind, it isn't always there all the time nor rarely in the direction you want it to be when on a schedule, especially crossing the stream. I'm respectfully with Tingum and denverd0n.

[svHyLyte]

Originally Posted by denverd0n

You're not going to get from Tampa to Bimini and back during a week-long charter. No way.

I don't see diving charters from a sailboat being a very lucrative business to run out of Tampa. The diving opportunities nearby are just not all that great. There are the Keys and the Dry Tortugas, but you're going to spend more time sailing than diving if you want to get there and back in one week.

Time to rethink the business plan.

Amen.

Considering that Ft. Jeff is about 175 miles from the Tampa Southwest Channel Sea Bouy, you'd be looling at 30 hours (or so) from there each way assuming you had good weather for the entire ride, which isn't likely considering what comes off the Everglades south of Cape Romano every night. Day charters around Tampa Bay with shore excersions perhaps, but dive charters? I can't see it.

FWIW...

[captainKJ]

Originally Posted by Tingum

Wow, If you need help figuring this out, should you really be putting yourself out as a professional?

makes me wonder about people

[captainKJ]

does anybody know how long it would take me to drive my truck to alaska??? I have been driving for many years but am having trouble figuring it out.

This guy makes no since.

outfitting a boat with internet at sea but has to ask direction...look at a chart and figure it out, no offense meant but if you have trouble doing that on a paper chart you have no business taking out the boat with people on it. dont trust your chart plotters, learn how to use paper chart, it only take 5 minutes to figure that out on a chart,

sorry if you do not like the post but think about what you are asking.

makes me wonder why people buy boats and can not do simple chart plotting

[Starbuck]

Cruiser's Forum: Cruising Boats, Cruising People, Cruising Answers.

Well, one thing is for sure: don't have to worry about him coming back to bother anyone again.

[Lagoon4us]

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