Thursday, December 1, 2011

Sailing to the Dry Tortugas





In June 2011 my brother Doug, a USPS friend Bill and I sailed my Catalina 320 from Burnt Store Marina to the Dry Tortugas. 142 nm each way and all without major incident. Had great time and reasonably fair weather. Had been on our bucket list for years so nice to get that checked off. Took all the reasonable precautions...5 gps's, sextant, EPIRB, sateliite phone, off shore inflatable vests and towed our dinghy as escape pod.



Perhaps next trip to Key West.