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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well I'll be in Keylargo full time Starting in July..there's only one main roadway there...so will expect to see some of you! 
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  • randy56randy56 Member Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Heading to the Keys in May, for the weekend. Going to fly to Ft Meyers, get on a big party boat, the to the Keys.  it's a 3.5 hour boat ride. 

    https://www.fortmyers-sanibel.com/media/16409/bfms_keywest.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=1026&height=530&rnd=131384597780000000


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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,961 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That looks like a party boat!
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  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Given the weather lately - don't rule that out!

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  • Handymans342Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    randy56 said:
    Heading to the Keys in May, for the weekend. Going to fly to Ft Meyers, get on a big party boat, the to the Keys.  it's a 3.5 hour boat ride. 

    https://www.fortmyers-sanibel.com/media/16409/bfms_keywest.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=1026&height=530&rnd=131384597780000000


    And catch up with Handy 
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,961 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really want to get down to the keys......or make the crossing which would probably be more fun.
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  • 270496RINKER270496RINKER Member Posts: 12 ✭✭
    We were slipped right there next to the sea tow (Renee). 
    And were once again last week, back in the ice box now. Appears we've brought a bit of Florida weather back to 30s here this week. 
    Definitely beats -30s!
    Another great week while we were there! 
    But! 
    The 270 may be a titch small for living aboard. Can definitely see an upgrade in our future! And research is saying go diesel!
    What should we look for?
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  • StodgeStodge Member Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭✭
    342 is a nice size.  Guess it depends how long you plan to live aboard.  We've done a  16 day trip on ours and it wasn't cramped feeling.

    2002 FV 342 on Lake St. Clair - Past Commodore SHC - Vessel Examiner USCGAUX

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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,961 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would be looking at a 40' something, probably a fly bridge for living full time...but that's lottery money to me.
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  • 270496RINKER270496RINKER Member Posts: 12 ✭✭
    Guess we're hoping to do more touring. 
    And we'd still prefer a trailerable boat, thinking just under forty and a twelve or under beam, from the way it looks beams under twelve increase fuel economy significantly when you control the throttle Monkey within.
    A month aboard would be our limit before we'd have to get back to reality.
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  • StodgeStodge Member Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭✭
    Normally you have to stay around a 9 foot beam to trailer a boat without permits etc.  We ran into some folks up in the Baie Fine last year in a 25 foot trawler (with outboard).  They trailered up from Florida, dropped her in and puttered around the North Channel.  We did it the hard way.  :)

    2002 FV 342 on Lake St. Clair - Past Commodore SHC - Vessel Examiner USCGAUX

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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,069 mod
    Trailering a 40-foot boat isn't practical unless your daily driver is a Kenworth.  You're talking 10 tons of boat.  Even a 32-footer is a lot for the open road.  
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,961 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Even the 270 is a lot of boat to haul...and stop.
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  • 04FV270riverrat04FV270riverrat Member Posts: 268 ✭✭✭
    270496RINKER said:
    We were slipped right there next to the sea tow (Renee). 
    And were once again last week, back in the ice box now. Appears we've brought a bit of Florida weather back to 30s here this week. 
    Definitely beats -30s!
    Another great week while we were there! 
    But! 
    The 270 may be a titch small for living aboard. Can definitely see an upgrade in our future! And research is saying go diesel!
    What should we look for?
    Something like a 310 would work. Height is a concern while trailering also if you can’t fold the arch down. A guy from Indianapolis came to Lake Cumberland towing his Monterey 335 hard top on a custom low trailer with a dually. He still had to remove the radar and stuff on the hard top to trailer. I think it’s under 12 wide, closer to 11.
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  • 270496RINKER270496RINKER Member Posts: 12 ✭✭
    Fortunately I deal with Kenworths everyday ;). 12' and under do require permits. 
    Don't believe we'd be pulling it across country, thinking it would stay in Florida 5 miles from the marina. 
    Still in the planning stages. Sounds plausible in theory. 

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  • StodgeStodge Member Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭✭
    Just curious, why not just keep it in the marina?

    2002 FV 342 on Lake St. Clair - Past Commodore SHC - Vessel Examiner USCGAUX

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  • Dream_InnDream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,945 mod
    LaRea said:
    Trailering a 40-foot boat isn't practical unless your daily driver is a Kenworth.  You're talking 10 tons of boat.  Even a 32-footer is a lot for the open road.  

    Try over 12 tons (not even full of gas).

    I'm not sure I'd be boating much if I had to put my boat in the water each time I wanted to use it.  Besides the time spent putting it in, to me it's like another home.  I get there, ice in ice maker already, both fridges are stocked and cold.  Way too convenient not to have it that way!

    Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

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  • 270496RINKER270496RINKER Member Posts: 12 ✭✭
    Guess we're the do it yourself type, and I'm not one to let myself be at someone else's mercy or timeline. 
    Prefer to do our own thing in our timeframe. 

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