Okeechobee Waterway-2 Part Question

[Blissboat]

Neworleansrich wrote: "If you are going West to East, but not going up the east coast or to the Little Bahama Bank, it's faster to go through the Keys (use Channel Five at Islamorada). It's at least 24hrs faster if you are going to Bimini."

In a slow boat, that's certainly true. In a faster boat that can transit the locks in a day, I'm unsure whether going south is worth what would probably add up to additional operating costs.

Either way, it's a journey. The canal is an experience all its own, different than traveling through Florida Bay and the Keys.

 

[healhustler]

In my relaxed 7.5 knot trawler speed, I go from Cape Coral to just past Ortona Lock the on the first day, Indiantown 2nd day, Stuart on the third morning, and that's going around the southern rim route.