DPTrainor
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imho, there is simply insufficient info here on condition of boat, experience of Captain and amount of calendar time to make responsible recommendations on routing via an e-mail thread. Full Stop.
Dan, Sabre 32.
Dan, Sabre 32.
You are right. This is exactly the type of boating that this vessel was built to do. Montauk to Cape May. Start out into the Atlantic on a course that will take you 60 miles off shore and require a 24 hour overnight cruise. If SeaTow won't respond in an emergency (they are only 5 hours away) you can call the Coasties.
The weather patterns in this area do not fit into convenient three day windows. You have weather changing in a matter of hours. Fog developing in a matter of minutes. And your points are accurate. IF you have a well sorted out vessel. Does anything that the OP has offered convince you that this vessel has been "sorted out"? It has been up on land. He has a broker's and past owner's word that everything is working. What could possibly go wrong? And have you also been convinced that Drinkinbuddy is competent to make this voyage? He is asking us how to get to Miami from Rhode Island, as if he believes he can take a couple notes and then commission his new boat as soon as the marina unfreezes and leave the next day.
If you are looking for adventure, ask him if you can join him. That would definitely improve the experience level. But, if I were going along, which I wouldn't in all honesty, I'd take my credit card and a dry suit, and my own life raft, an epirb, .... well you get the idea.
You're never 60 miles offshore even on a straight line course between Montauk to Cape May.
Now if you run the coast and stay close in you only add about 22 extra miles to the trip. From 195 nm to a distance of 217 nm. Or about an extra 3 run hours at 7.5 knots. So either way you only need a day and a half to a maximum two day weather window. Not 3 full days.
Plus you have a number of places you could go into if the forecast took a turn for the worse.
Most of all have fun and take your time, pleasure boating is supposed to be pleasurable. Read posts buy VicTrawler on this site, he and his bride just bought your boats twin and drove it straight down the west coast from bc to Mexico.
VicTrawler prepared.
No kidding Sherlock.
Why does everyone assume nobody else will unless they are told to?