THE JOURNEYS OF TERRMAR IV: JAN 22,2012- PALAFOX MARINA, PENSACOLA TO SHALIMAR YACHT BASIN, WALTON BEACH, FL

OUR PLAN

We are writing this blog for one reason and one reason only. To provide a vehicle to make it easier to remain in touch with our family and friends back home.

Our plan is simple. Depart our home port of Goderich, Ontario in the Summer of 2011. Cruise Georgian Bay and the North Channel of Lake Huron while visiting some of the ports and anchorages we have missed over the years. As well as revisiting some of our favourite haunts hopefully with some of our very good friends with whom we have cruised with many times before. All the while adding up the miles and gaining experience with our new trawler. Our first and only self imposed deadline is to be in the Chicago area around Labour Day. South of Chicago, weather and circumstances will guide us!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

JAN 22,2012- PALAFOX MARINA, PENSACOLA TO SHALIMAR YACHT BASIN, WALTON BEACH, FL

The next few days we were on a mission. We wanted to get to Scipio Creek Marina in Apalachicola Fl. or maybe Carrabelle Fl. Either port would be suitable as a staging point for our crossing of the Gulf of Mexico. This was a distance of approximately 190 Statute Miles and would require an overnight crossing so as to arrive in Clearwater in the day light. Sometimes boaters will wait up to a week or more for the right weather window. Even then there is no assurance of a smooth crossing. This is of course winter and the Gulf can really kick up. So everything went pretty much as expected. I’ll let the pictures do the talking.
Mark