Hi
I am totally new to this & we are planing on buying a yacht from the great lakes in Ohio next year & are planning on sailing it home to the central coast NSW. Has anyone done this before or have any ideas.
You have tree options, one head south and use the roaring 40s to go West to East. Two, go through the Suez. Three truck it to the west coat of America and use trade winds West to East.
I would recommend the truck, especially if time is short.
Good luck
Hi Dave
I was working one year in Milwaukee in 2000. Boats were already give away prices.
I star planning a passage.
All boats around Lakes are out of water in winter.
Just to get to East Coast must be great adventure.
You can leave spring but half way going south along east coast you in hurricane season.
You wait or risk it and sail and hide. I visited many place from N.Caroline
to Key West, wouldn't see any hiding places, just exposed marinas.
November is still hurricane season in the Atlantic.
East coast and Caribbean in a rush to make to Panama around January
Leaving Panama for Galapagos is usually done in mid to end February.
Than by October back in OZ.
Perhaps with good crew and race to Panama
before hurricane season and than you have to wait anyway.
West coast would be smarter option to buy the boat . That's my opinion.
Hey Chariot.
Thanks. I am planning on doing it over 18 months.
Would be happy to park it over the hurricane season & come back & carry on.
I am not sure if a yacht can make it down the Mississippi with a mast & what time of the year it would be best to head across the Pacific.
Just reading from Kindle a book .... James Baldwin "Across Islands and Oceans"
No idea about sailing bought a Pearson Triton 28 on Gr. Lakes and sailed through East coast, Panama around . And sail well. / not ones /.
I personally wouldn't miss East coast, from Cape Hatteras to Key West, simply paradise,
ocean crystal clear, boiling hot and hundreds of spots to drop the anchor every night and discover.
All because of the Gulf and dozens of Outer Islands.
Hurricane season June to November. Sailing window from Panama to AUS Feb. to Oct.
Hi Dave,
Are you on cruisers forums? www.cruisersforum.com/forums/
There are many many threads about what you are thinking of doing;
* Purchasing (must have Aus registration BEFORE you leave the US
* Boat travel from the Great Lakes south including details on the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway)
* Gulf, Carib & Panama
* Sth Pacific
* Importing a boat into Aus
Go Dave ! I am jealous as hell . I did a similar trip a few years ago. should work well ,hurricane season getting ready and out of the lakes to NY and down to Chesapeake bay then November to march getting to panama ( or get there later (june)after doing the carribean and spend the next hurricane season in panama as it is out of the danger area and heaps to see/do)
Then April to oct in pacific .in a perfect world hole up somewhere like tonga for the off season and go again next year it's a bloody big area.
Rather than listen to me get a copy of jimmy cornells world cruising routes and start planning!
If you are interested and end up going that way pm me I may have a pile of charts and guidebooks for sale
let just buy a really good boat crusing boat and go it. insure it. buy me a beeper incase the keel falls of and let me and my experenced crew just send it! if you purchase the boat in Us you need aus rego before you leave the US so the boat is valued as an australian vessel so it is win win for you. My payment is you lending me your boat. I will be available from 15th of feb if you are keen to make a bit of risk free cash as I am chasing a bit of risk. I have a many references that will tell that if anyone can do it its me
