I searched the posts but didn't see anything that I was specifically looking for.
We currently have our boat in New Bern, NC with plans to leave mid December to bring her around Florida (with a side trip to the Bahamas) and up the river system to where we live in St. Louis. Now with the destruction of Ian we're unsure whether this is a wise, or even doable, plan. We cruised full time for six years on a sailboat but this will be the first time on a power vessel. Many of the places we used to stop as we made our way from the Keys to Tampa Bay are unavailable to us due to Ian, so in all likelihood we would need to make a straight shot from the lower Keys to Tampa.
We carry 320 gals of diesel @ 3 mpg as far as we know from the PO. The boat is a Kha Shing 40 sedan with twin Cummins 4BT3.9 engines.
Just looking for some opinions since we're newbies on the trawler front.
We currently have our boat in New Bern, NC with plans to leave mid December to bring her around Florida (with a side trip to the Bahamas) and up the river system to where we live in St. Louis. Now with the destruction of Ian we're unsure whether this is a wise, or even doable, plan. We cruised full time for six years on a sailboat but this will be the first time on a power vessel. Many of the places we used to stop as we made our way from the Keys to Tampa Bay are unavailable to us due to Ian, so in all likelihood we would need to make a straight shot from the lower Keys to Tampa.
We carry 320 gals of diesel @ 3 mpg as far as we know from the PO. The boat is a Kha Shing 40 sedan with twin Cummins 4BT3.9 engines.
Just looking for some opinions since we're newbies on the trawler front.