Rollin' on an Ocean River--Miami to Virginia, Part One
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Kevin Boothby, PhD, documents the forensics of engineless blue-water voyaging. Join his 2026 Bahamas expedition aboard the Gilmer 31 cutter, Ruth Avery.
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Thursday, May 10, and we are off for Virginia. We end up having to tack out of the Old Florida Channel to reach open waters. The winds stubbornly remain east to northeast, pushing us westward until we close the coast around Lake Worth the following morning. Then the winds fall light. We tack back out into the Gulf Stream and mostly drift with the current for the next few days, which is conveniently taking us where we want to go.
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