Category: Cruising
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Days 5-16 | Final Voyage of M/Y Zinful
What we thought would be our last night on our final voyage with Zinful, turned out to be only night 7 out of 18!!! Wow, we had not seen that coming and we were unprepared for such a long stay. We had made arrangements with a DIY boat yard in Fort Pierce to be hauled…
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Day 4 | Final Voyage of M/Y Zinful
Our fourth (and final day!) moving Zinful was our longest day at 50.7 nm, but also our shortest day at 6.5 hours of travel time. Today was wonderful cruising, and without the bridges and hustle of large cities. Almost at the very end of this ~200 nm journey, we encountered boat problems – Tom lost…
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Day 3 | Final Voyage of M/Y Zinful
Our third day moving Zinful was a long, slow day. We cruised under a plethora of ICW bridges – bridge after bridge, only some of which we could fit under while the bridges were closed. For the closed bridges that we couldn’t fit under, we had to time our arrival with the scheduled bridge opening…
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Day 2 | Final Voyage of M/Y Zinful
Our second day moving Zinful was spent on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW). The AIWW is a network of waterways, some natural and some man-made, that stretches over 1,100 miles from Key West, FL to Norfolk, VA. We’ll get to travel every mile during our Loop! We left Key Largo and continued our journey north,…
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Day 1 | Final Voyage of M/Y Zinful
We bought a boat and we’re finally ready to set off on our maiden voyage! Zinful was located in Key Largo, FL and we needed to move her to a DIY boat yard in Fort Pierce, FL to spend a little time getting her Loop-ready. That’s about 200 miles for our first journey on the…