tony1b2000
Active Member
You haven't said how much time you have, maybe you are just moving a boat, that's fine, but if you have the time, stay inside and enjoy the trip. A few of the things you'll miss by skipping Georgia: Biking around Jekyll Island and seeing the mansions from previous generations. Enjoying the morning's first cup of coffee while watching the sunrise over the saltmarsh anchored in the middle of nowhere. Checking out downtown Savannah, walking the City Market, learning about how the buildings along the waterfront were built with ballast stone from other parts of the world that the sailing ships off loaded before taking ships full of cotton back to Europe and Africa. Treat yourself and your crew to dinner at 17Hundred90, a great restaurant there with some wonderful (and spooky) history. Don't forget that photo of you and the admiral sitting on the park bench at the bus stop across from "Jenny's" diner from Forrest Gump. (It's not the original one that Tom Hanks sat on, that one's in a museum someplace, but nobody needs to know ). Myself and the wife can recall all these things in vivid detail.
I can tell you that the days we ran outside were, well, we ran outside. I know we burned a lot of fuel on those days. We did cover ground, and I get that sometimes you just need to do that.
Just my 2 cents. It's your trip, above all enjoy and be safe and congrats on the new boat.
The most interesting path between two points is never a straight line
We would like to complete the trip back to Boston in 10 days, 12 days max!. I know that's a lot of mileage to push daily. Worse case, we get her up north as far as we can and keep it at a marina for a few weeks and continue the trip to Boston when we can and the weather cooperates. Unfortunatly, work gets in the way!