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Started 2 months ago by PaddleDancer
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PaddleDancer
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Due to a Small Craft Advisory on the Everglades Challenge course, a Prudent Weather Hold is effect. The deadlines for all checkpoints, including the finish, are extended by the duration of the weather hold. WaterTribe strongly recommends all captains stay on shore and sit out the weather hold. But the final decision to go or stay is up to the captain and crew.”

Forecast currently shows 15-20 knots average across Florida Bay for the rest of the week.

Please visit the link below for details of a Prudent Weather Hold.
http://watertribe.com/PDF/MustRead/WaterTribeRules.pdf

Posted 2 months ago #
PaddleDancer
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Wind is howling in Key Largo. Challengers are strongly encouraged to move to and stay on shore or at checkpoints. Small Craft Advisory (SCA) for Florida Bay is below. Advisories extend up the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.

GMZ031-060930-
Florida Bay including Barnes Sound, Blackwater Sound, and
Buttonwood Sound-
1035 PM EST Tue Mar 5 2019

SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT

OVERNIGHT
North winds 15 to 20 knots, increasing to 20 to 25
knots. Bay waters choppy, becoming very rough. Isolated showers.

WEDNESDAY
North to northeast winds 20 to 25 knots, decreasing
to 15 to 20 knots in the afternoon. Bay waters very rough,
becoming choppy.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Northeast winds 15 to 20 knots. Bay waters
choppy.

THURSDAY
Northeast to east winds 10 to 15 knots. Bay waters a
light to moderate chop.

THURSDAY NIGHT
East winds 10 to 15 knots. Bay waters a light
to moderate chop. Isolated showers.

FRIDAY
East winds 10 to 15 knots. Bay waters a light to
moderate chop. Isolated showers.

FRIDAY NIGHT
East winds 10 to 15 knots. Bay waters a light to
moderate chop. Isolated showers.

SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT
East to southeast winds 10 to 15
knots. Bay waters a light to moderate chop. Isolated showers.

SUNDAY
Southeast winds 10 to 15 knots. Bay waters a light to
moderate chop.

SUNDAY NIGHT
East to southeast winds near 10 knots. Bay waters
a light chop.

Posted 2 months ago #
danceswithmullet
Member

There wont be any water in Florida bay with that wind. What was it 6 years ago? Two tribers crossed fl bay at the start of the north wind and the boat was stuck for nearly a week. DWM

Posted 2 months ago #
Macatawa
Member

danceswithmullet wrote:

There wont be any water in Florida bay with that wind. What was it 6 years ago? Two tribers crossed fl bay at the start of the north wind and the boat was stuck for nearly a week. DWM

2011... was a SCAMP sailboat:

http://andrewlinn.com/ec_2011/ec2011.htm

Posted 2 months ago #
lugnut
Member

The Scamp that year missed Tin Can Channel, I think they were somewhere around Cormorant Key. But it will get skinny. In 2007 with a 10-15 northernly (which had been blowing for a couple days, sometimes at higher speeds), there was only 10-12 inches in Tin Can around Buoy Key, and it was skinny at the entrance of Manatee Pass. Mistermoon has left Flamingo this morning for Key Largo and according to his spot has passed Dump Keys and is heading for Twisty Mile. I think someone else is on the way over but am not sure if it's a paddler or sailor. Sailors at Flamingo face a nasty choice: leave today in high winds that look like they will allow taking the direct course across Florida Bay or wait for slightly less breeze but which will probably be a headwind that will required the long detour around the bay.

Posted 2 months ago #
PaddleDancer
Member

The prudent weather hold is no longer in effect.

Posted 2 months ago #
Chekika
Member

If the wind is out of the NE at 13 mph for tomorrow (Thursday), FL Bay east of Flamingo will get even more shallow. For most boats, this passage (almost straight east from Flamingo) must be done at high tide.

Mr Moon/Thurmadillo and Boatbum_luckyme are at the finish in Key Largo.

Keith

Posted 2 months ago #

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