After a couple weeks off for the AGLCA Rendezvous and a week long cruise ship excursion, we are back on the boat to start the next leg of the Great Loop adventure.
Today we decided to head out a day early and cancel our stays at Sportsman and Emerald Coast each of 3 days. We have a weather window to cross the Gulf on Friday in just 3 days. We turned in the rental car, loaded up with groceries and hit the water. We also picked up Mom from the Pensacola airport yesterday for this leg of the loop across the Gulf. So instead of seven easy days to Apalachacola to wait for a weather window, we need to cover 240 miles in two days to get to Carrabelle to meet up with 12 other AGLCA club members that will be crossing the Gulf as well. So our goal today was to get to Panama City sun Harbor for 109 miles. We pulled out at 8am and averaged 14.2kts to arrive by 4pm for a full day on the water.
Distance 109nm Duration 7:53 Average Speed 14.3kts Max Speed. 22kts
