Dry Tortuga trip planning questions

[tilewave]

also unmentioned is, you follow a chain of keys for about 35 miles ( the last being marquesa which has some good fishing back behind it ) enroute to tortugas so if the seas kick up you can tuck behind one and wait it out if you really had to. then its about a 40 mile open water run to tortugas.

 

[SmokyMtnGrady]

Magicbill, second only to cruising over into the Bahamas, you are right you would be hard pressed to find a nicer place to boat and fish than the the Florida Keys on the east coast. When we lived in central Florida we would go there for our kids spring break every year, but now since we moved to the Smokies, doing it at spring break eats almost 4 days travel leaving us with 3 days of playing. Just is not worth it from here, so summer it is for fishing and playing.

Thanks for the tips everyone. I will be down there on from July 1 to 17 and if the seas are favorable we run to Tortuga on the 17th, if anybody here is down then, maybe we can meet up?

 

[magicalbill]

SmokyMt..
Hope all is well on your trip..Take some pics in the Tortugas so we can see(drool).
In the future, I am completely interested in a trip over with you and maybe several other Gradys. I am much more comfortable doing open-water crossings with others for obvious reasons.
Tilewave..
Great info..
I didn't know that. I thought it was open water except for passing the Marquesis(SP?) I also was unaware that the reef that parallells the Keys continues on SW into the Atlantic.
Are the conditions the same as in the Hawk Channel? Does the reef break the roll of the open ocean as it does off the Keys?