JetBoaters.net Bimini Fling June 19 to 25 2016

[DieselCamel]

Forecast for Sunday is looking great...

 

[Bruce]

Forecast for Sunday is looking great...

I hope it holds for Monday. Unfortunately the wind is forecast to change direction and increase a little. I am eagerly awaiting tomorrows 7 day forecast!

 

[chris24]

Oil, lower drive oil, and fuel filters changed. Yesterday. Ran like a champ today.. But better take it back out tomorrow just to be sure

Just got back from a 2 hour tour of Lake Tarpon here in West Florida. I feel my boat is in one hundred percent perfect running condition. It ran 54 miles per hour @ 7800 RPMs. Let's do this !!

 

[robert843]

I hope it holds for Monday. Unfortunately the wind is forecast to change direction and increase a little. I am eagerly awaiting tomorrows 7 day forecast!

Yeah I saw passage weathers first forecast for Monday and it has 3-6ft seas in your path I sure hope it is wrong. If that is the case with that Sunday forecast you maybe better off to leave Sunday afternoon if you can get everyone together on it.

 

[Bruce]

Yeah I saw passage weathers first forecast for Monday and it has 3-6ft seas in your path I sure hope it is wrong. If that is the case with that Sunday forecast you maybe better off to leave Sunday afternoon if you can get everyone together on it.

The problem with going Sunday is what do we do with 90 people in Bimini that will not have condos until the next day. Small group travel certainly is easier

 

[Bruce]

Yeah I saw passage weathers first forecast for Monday and it has 3-6ft seas in your path I sure hope it is wrong. If that is the case with that Sunday forecast you maybe better off to leave Sunday afternoon if you can get everyone together on it.

This forecast that just became available is for 8:00 PM Sunday. Passage Weather's times are in UTC. It is around the time of the change in wind from WSW to ESE. I am hopeful that it will calm down as the change in wind direction establishes itself.

 

[robert843]

This forecast that just became available is for 8:00 PM Sunday. Passage Weather's times are in UTC. It is around the time of the change in wind from WSW to ESE. I am hopeful that it will calm down as the change in wind direction establishes itself.

I'm pretty sure that is 4am Monday morning isn't UTC time 4 hours ahead of us?

 

[Bruce]

At 00:00 UTC it is 20:00 hours the day before in EST.

 

[robert843]

At 00:00 UTC it is 20:00 hours the day before in EST.

Lol I have been reading that wrong for years then. I always thought my computer was converting est when I would check but instead it was showing utc time.

 

[solarman]

Hey @solarman I am crossing on Friday morning. I have been been busy at work sorry for being MIA from everything. Is long is the weather is looking good I will go. I know @2nazt had inbox me about him going on a ski and crossing on Friday too.

Hey @BigJay17 we are trying for Thursday morning pending weather, If that changes I'll let you know. For now we are Bimini Bound, we just got back from a 100 mile test run out of Galveston Bay with all 8 on board, everything went well and we got into some 2-3 footers off shore, the bay was the calmest I have ever seen it, hope the ride to Bimini will be the same for all of us.

 

[robert843]

Well we had so much fun last time I figured why not again. These guys are leaving tomorrow morning and heading over to Treasure Cay in the Abacos. The will stop in West End in Grand Bahamas then make their way around to Treasure Cay over on the Abacos. They have four skis and a boat going 3 Yamaha FX's, Kawasaki Ultra 310R and a 22 foot Blazer Bay boat. I think their a little crazy taking the Blazer Bay as those are flats boats with 13 degrees of dead rise but to each their own heck I guess people say we are crazy for taking our boats. Below is the link to follow them they are leaving in the morning and returning Friday the 17th.

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0fuHWmLLmxFvlt238SBQHAaxMKQ3MKD8t

For anyone who saw these guys cross yesterday they made good time below is a short version of their crossing story. I was going to build a rack but I think I will pass now.

It took 2 hours from West Palm Beach to West End for customs and fuel

Day got more complicated after that.

We all made it safely though, but it took over 10 hours

Tim's ski has a hole in the deck where his rack broke through
Another ski has his rack break, so he dumped it.
4+ foot swells at one point

Long hard days ride for everyone. Even the two on the boat were burnt and beat up.

Its beautiful here though and we have a whole week to enjoy it.

Our original plan was to return on Saturday. That may change.

Still up in the air.

 

[DieselCamel]

@veedubtek make you get your starboard

For anyone who saw these guys cross yesterday they made good time below is a short version of their crossing story. I was going to build a rack but I think I will pass now.

It took 2 hours from West Palm Beach to West End for customs and fuel

Day got more complicated after that.

We all made it safely though, but it took over 10 hours

Tim's ski has a hole in the deck where his rack broke through
Another ski has his rack break, so he dumped it.
4+ foot swells at one point

Long hard days ride for everyone. Even the two on the boat were burnt and beat up.

Its beautiful here though and we have a whole week to enjoy it.

Our original plan was to return on Saturday. That may change.

Still up in the air.

 

[veedubtek]

^ exactly what I was afraid of and why I was ordering it. That hull flexed alot when I tightened the rack down, I didn't figure it would hold up in rough conditions.

 

[tim h]

My girl is still in shop for GPS problems that arose on Charleston trip. Apparently an internal short in wiring harness from Garmin. Should be shipped soon, but at least it won't keep me from making the trip.

Do you have a back up GPS ?

 

[tim h]

Changed oil and got my storage solutions squared away today. Ready to go!

View attachment 38988

NICE RACK

 

[ACrews]

Do you have a back up GPS ?

I do. I have Navionics on my phone app but hoping I don't have to use it.

 

[robert843]

^ exactly what I was afraid of and why I was ordering it. That hull flexed alot when I tightened the rack down, I didn't figure it would hold up in rough conditions.

It was a nano excell hull as well they are actually blaming it on that I guess its thinner or something.

 

[chris24]

I cleaned all the channels around the gas tank and ski locker of all dirt, debris and leaves . If I take any water over the bow I want to make sure it has a clear pathway out ..

 

[Ramblin Wreck]

It was a nano excell hull as well they are actually blaming it on that I guess its thinner or something.

I'm a bit concerned about the integrity of these nano hulls after reading @JetBoatPilot issues and now this. I hope the 10 gallons I'll have strapped on doesn't cause an issue.

 

[Majorsmackdown]

I like the navionics app in my iphone and originally planned to use just that. Its great but the concerns of flooding the phone caught up to me. There are $100 and $150 rebates on dragonfly chartplotters. I don't know enough about them to recommend or not but the swivel ball mount is nice to adjust and it came with navionics+. I got the 7 pro. Decent resolution screen and it nicely blocks my analogue tachs. I didn't like how big the cable plug was but such is life.