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We’re heading south for the winter
Five pieces for the run south: when to decide, how the boat gets there, what changes at the helm, and what to settle before hurricane season.
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Wintering Your Boat in Florida: How Great Lakes Snowbirds Plan the Run South
The boats that winter in Florida don't decide in October. They decide in July. Here's the planning sequence that makes the snowbird run work.
4 min read
Still Time to Send Her South: The Late-Decider’s Calendar
The July planners have their slips and their dates. You’re not out of the game yet. But the clock on a fall run south is real, and here’s how to read it.
4 min read
Great Lakes to Florida Boat Delivery: Routes, Cost, Timing
Truck or transit? The honest comparison for Great Lakes owners thinking about getting their boat to Florida for the winter, from a captain who works both ends.
13 min read
Boating in Florida vs. the Great Lakes: What Changes at the Helm
Your boat doesn't change when it goes south. The water does. What a Great Lakes boater has to relearn in Florida, from tides and inlet currents to manatee zones.
8 min read
Boat Hurricane Plan in Florida: What to Settle by June 1
Where she goes, who takes her there, and what your marina and insurer expect: the decisions that make a hurricane plan, and why they get made in the spring.
7 min read
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