How Far South......Looking for 80deg water in March

[Babin Farms]

@Babin Farms You rock man. Thank you!

One other thing, there is a public launch that you can use for free just to the west of DW about 1/2 mile.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

We stayed on the bay side condos but either will work to be within walking distance of the slips. The map does not show the boast slips but I marked where they are in yellow and below that you can see them from our room. Every condo does not have a slip so you will have to find one that does. The dock has a locked gate with a code so it's somewhat secure and nothing like I've ever tied my boat to before so make sure to take plenty of dock lines with you. It took me a couple times but I figured out what was the best way to tie the boat off to keep it from rubbing on anything and still giving it enough slack to move .

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Well isn’t that place just fancy schmancy!

 

[swatski]

@Babin Farms You rock man. Thank you!

I second that motion!

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[mwalker4]

this is a handy little chart I use...
Who is in the water...
below 75 tourists/kids or locals with more than 10 beers
76-78 - tourists and snowbirds or locals with more than 6 beers
78-80 - locals with less than 6 beers
81-85 - tourists whining that its bath water, locals take their wetsuits off...
above 86 locals start loosing swim suits...

I just asked my brother-in-law who is in the Coast Guard at Islamorada if this is true and his response was:

"I legit just pulled in from a training run, that's on point.

It's blowing 15-20 knots with 25 kts gusts. Air 81, water 77. The only people I saw were:

Commercial lobster fishermen
Local kite boarders
Tourists who already paid for rental boats or towed their boats down."

 

[84rzv500r]

lots of retired coasties here in the lower keys a few ret. navy chiefs and master chiefs too...

 

[I_squared_r]

Probably this far...a little farther South than Florida.

https://www.seatemperature.org/south-america/brazil/rio-de-janeiro.htm#:~:text=The%20warmest%20water%20temperature%20is,%C2%B0F%20%2F%2021.3%C2%B0C

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Come on down!