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December 13, 2005
Gone Sailing! Passage Plan in Google Earth
Today I am leaving to help deliver a beautiful Voyage 440 catamaran (same make and model as my old boat PatiCat) from Maryland down to Vero Beach Florida. As a result, please be patient if you send me E-mail as I will have almost no Internet connectivity for the next several days. Don't worry though, I have already written a few stories for GEB, one for each day of the week, which will be published first thing each morning.
You can see the approximate passage we have planned 
in Google Earth. We will come down the Chesapeake, go out to the ocean around Cape Haterras and down the coast to Florida. We have to stay kind of close to the coast to avoid going into the north-moving Gulf Stream. Zoom in and you will see we have to go past our destination to the Ft. Pierce Inlet in Florida due to bridges which are too short for our mast to go under if we were to take the northern Sebastian Inlet. Our total passage is about 860 nautical miles and will take about 5 - 6 days in this boat.
Those of you who have been following my writings will probably guess I'm pretty excited about this. And you would be right! Also, I plan to write a story when we get back with our actual GPS track in GE and include some georeferenced photos as well. What fun!
Posted by FrankTaylor at December 13, 2005 07:18 AM
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Posted by: Jason at December 13, 2005 09:57 AM
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Looks like you'll be swinging close to me when you go thru Hampton Roads. I'll give a virtual wave as you do, have fun!