Farthest Adventure

[SR400DB]

What type of boat? We are interested in a similar path over then next few years starting from Seattle. Then further north to SE Alaska. Eventually south.

Just saw this apologies for the delay.

I have a non trawler Sea Ray Sedan Bridge. I have to pick my weather and sea state carefully. For the MX trip I had a fuel bladder on the bow.

Happy to discuss anytime.

 

[vtmackey]

Just completed Tortolla to Venice FL, by way of San Juan, Dominican Republic, up the Bahama Chain. Fuel ran between $2.25 and $5.25, customs and gov't fees were the surprise. Averging $225, when your just stopping for fuel in Turks and Caicos. Mainship Pilot Hard Top 34.

 

[cardude01]

Just completed Tortolla to Venice FL, by way of San Juan, Dominican Republic, up the Bahama Chain. Fuel ran between $2.25 and $5.25, customs and gov't fees were the surprise. Averging $225, when your just stopping for fuel in Turks and Caicos. Mainship Pilot Hard Top 34.

That’s quite a trip! Just guessing not very many boats your size/fuel capacity make that adventure. At what speed did you normally cruise?

 

[vtmackey]

We averaged 11mph, for 148 hrs. Mona passage lived up to it's reputation on the passage from Punta Cana to Puerto Plata.

 

[Daddyo]

South Florida to Maine round trip 4 times, 3 solo. Hurricanes Irene, Mathew and Sandy on the hook. Norfolk to Bermuda on a friends sailboat. But then there's Dauntless!!!

 

[FlyWright]

My longest was from Seattle to Stockton, CA helping a guy take his 57' Bayliner down there. 9 days, some of that due to weather. It was a good trip, all things considered and I learned a lot about being on the ocean.

I remember that trip, Mike! Ray and I had a checkered flag stretched across the slip when you and Stuart arrived. Whatever happened to Stuart?

I'm slowly building up my experience, as its big open water with few protected harbours going any distance from here.
My longest trip in this boat was Adelaide to Port Lincoln. About 400 nm over 15 days with no marinas in between.

WTG! That's a long time on a 30 footer without reprovisioning!

I really envy you. My long-long range plan is to return to the Baltic and spend a year or two in the Gulf of Bothnia.

As to the past, https://share.garmin.com/dauntless

Though it doesn't show the first year of Florida to New England, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, then all the way down tot he Bahamas, then return to Florida and Rhode Island.
At that point I got the InReach

I think we have a winner in the "42' and Under" category! (BTW, she's still floating right-side-up in the slip, Wxx3!)

Honolulu to Long Beach, CA to Panama Canal to Jamaica to Cancun to Ft Myers Fl.
~8000 nm over 6 months

Welcome aboard! Short first post but to the point! Tell us more.

 

[boatpoker]

Homeport, Port Credit, Ontario
Duluth - Antigua, our cruising and delivery area

 

[Martin J]

Short handed Transatlantic in a ketch I built. Plus numerous ocean passages since.

 

[Crusty Chief]

Jeeezzz, I feel like a noob! Were at 12,500 NM gonna rack a few more up this summer a we head South.
Even more important is the TFer’s we met along the way, and that’s before we were flying the TF Burgee!
We will see you SF clan this summer!
Cheers

 

[Vadim]

June of 2018. Spring City, TN. to Pasadena, MD. 2600 NM in 3 weeks.

 

[tozz]

You can't go until we're ready...

Agreed. Let's go.

 

[Dswizzler]

Left San Francisco, with FlyWright as my escort in 2015 heading south, that year we made it to LaPaz, Mx. Since then up and down the Gulf of California, from Puerto Panesco (Rocky Point) to Barra De Navidad, then back up to San Carlos, Mx. Come this October we head south again towards at least El Salvador or Panama. Just keep heading south, the water is fine and the people are friendly. We have met great cruisers from around the world, mostly stick boaters but they are ice too, just bring ice. Cut the lines and get off the dock

 

[JohnEasley]

Jacksonville, FL to Tampa, FL. Roughly 500 miles

 

[Wayfarer]

To those of you feeling hopelessly inadequate compared to these high milers, rest easy in the knowledge that you've almost certainly got me beat! My longest trip as owner/operator so far... 135 miles... lol.

And that was the trip that taught me that I could only carry fuel for 134.9 of those miles.

 

[FlyWright]

I boat in and around the California Delta and the San Fransisco Bay so most of my trips are 2-4 hrs. This summer, though, is different.

I'm exploring and documenting the 25 California Delta Bridges in 25 days. I call it @DeltaBridges. Many fellow bridge-loveres are posting incredible pics on the Facebook page. Check it out if you like bridge pictures. Additional bridges will be added soon.

So far, I've covered 15 bridges in 13 days, 215 miles and 31+ hours. Today is a day of rest at the Taste of the Delta event at Village West Marina...then it's 'back to work'!

By the end, I'll probably have close to 350 miles traveled.

 

[DCDC]

Returned to the Gulf Coast a few weeks ago from the Bahamas. Round trip was 5 months & 2200 nm.

On our previous boat, a 40’ ketch, cruised from Italy to the Gulf Coast. Took 5 years & 14,000 nm.

 

[Comodave]

We have done the entire west coast excluding Alaska. Our current boat was located off the Potomac River when we bought it. Ran it home 1400 miles, 75 locks, 45 days and 1 appendix left in New Jersey.

 

[BandB]

We have done the entire west coast excluding Alaska. Our current boat was located off the Potomac River when we bought it. Ran it home 1400 miles, 75 locks, 45 days and 1 appendix left in New Jersey.

Wifey B: You win with the appendix. Now it's up to others to show they've sacrificed more crucial organs on their trips.

 

[Comodave]

Well actually it was my wife that had the appendix removed. I tried to get her to go to the ER the night before but she insisted she was ok. It was halfway between Atlantic City and Manasquan that she decided she was in trouble. We got into Manasquan and put her in a taxi and off to the ER. She was a trouper though, one night in the hospital and we were back on the water heading up the Hudson.

 

[Wayfarer]

Well actually it was my wife that had the appendix removed. I tried to get her to go to the ER the night before but she insisted she was ok. It was halfway between Atlantic City and Manasquan that she decided she was in trouble. We got into Manasquan and put her in a taxi and off to the ER. She was a trouper though, one night in the hospital and we were back on the water heading up the Hudson.

I think trooper might be an understatement! I had mine out about a year ago, and I was useless for a couple of weeks.

 

[Imp]

Just wondering what the farthest adventure people have taken from their home ports.

Home port was Newport Beach CA; from there; went south with a detour for a year in the Sea of Cortez, then to mainland Mexico & Costa Rica & through the Panama Canal to cruise the San Blas Islands, then a winter in Cartagena, Colombia; back to the San Blas for another month, north to San Andres Island. Took a side trip to Cancun when we heard they had Egg McMuffins, then on to Key West via Roatan. From there headed up to Oriental NC, new home port. Total time via sail: 3-1/2 years, but note that during hurricane seasons we left the boat in the care of others & returned to the U.S. to travel in our motorhome.

 

[Comodave]

Well, actually the doctor did not want to release her since we were on a boat. He finally agreed to release her if we stayed 3 more days and went into his office before we left. We took her to the boat and the next morning she wanted to leave and the Atlantic was calm so we left and ran up the Hudson. When we got to Waterford we did take a couple of days off to let her rest.

 

[Imp]

Wifey B: You win with the appendix. Now it's up to others to show they've sacrificed more crucial organs on their trips.

Don't recall the name, but there was a West Coast sailboat ahead of us in the early '90's on which the skipper needed a heart transplant. It was too expensive in the U.S., so he sailed to his native Scandinavia to get his new FREE heart with his gov't insurance.

 

[boathealer]

So far relocated "home" from New Bern, NC to Jacksonville, FL earlier this spring.

• Miles traveled: 556
• Hours underway: 96
• Average speed (taking current/wait times into account): 5.76 knots (6.6 mph)
• Estimated fuel burned: approximately 125-150 gallons (diesel)
• Nights at anchor: 8
• Nights at marinas: 25
• Travel days: 15
• Layover/sight-seeing days: 18

We're planning on much more soon!

 

[Lostsailor13]

Cape May New Jersey to capetown south Africa

Myself as 1st mate and 2 other crew,one being tbe engineer,took the pelagic longline vessel we worked on down south for captain took us 38 days steamin,burned about 17000 gallons of the boats 18000,she was a 86 ft laforce built in bayou la batre,we had some misc painting to do and other small jobs,did 4 hr watches,we hit no bad weather,and was basically trouble free except small air conditioning problem,and washing machine pooped out,had a little party for our shellback,jumped out swam on equator then got hammered

 

[MRRiley]

San Diego to the Mediterranean via the Suez canal. Though we did have a very competent crew of 350 or so....

 

[rgano]

San Diego to the Mediterranean via the Suez canal. Though we did have a very competent crew of 350 or so....

What ship?

Since the OP did not specify in a private vessel, I'll tell this one. Left Norfolk in a USAF C-141 and landed in Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Next up a 2,000-mile "hop" in an S-2 Viking ASW plane to land on a carrier in the Arabian Sea where a helicopter whisked me over to my destroyer, lowering me by its hoist to the deck. In due course, that ship then transited the Suez back to Norfolk via the Med.

Six months later, we were sent on a circumnavigation of South America including such points of interest as the Panama Canal, the Chilean Waterway down the the Straits of Magellan, up to Punta Arenas (southernmost city in the world at the time), Rio De Janeiro, and back home to Norfolk. I was XO/Navigator through it all.

Never made it to the Southern Ocean (close!) nor the Bering Sea. Pretty much every other ocean.

 

[tozz]

Seattle to Juneau and Sitka

Have you done this run in your Nordic tug?

-tozz

 

[MRRiley]

7 different ones over the years. First, though not that far west, a BB, last, every part of that far west a CG. Throw in a FF, TAO, DD, LHA and a couple of squadrons you can almost make a career out of it.

 

[ktdtx]

Anacortes, Washington to Glacier Bay, Haines, Hoonah, Alaska area twice in a 52' North Pacific