Safety suggests speed limit test...

Dave R · 03-19-2007, 12:30 PM

FLL, you took a kayak through there?!!!! Lucky to be alive, lucky to be alive...

I don't think there needs to be a no-wake zone near FL3 (yet). It's always single file and perhaps 20 to 25 MPH on both sides when I go through. Not exactly fun, but not hard to deal with. I tend to enter that area from the northeast side of FL 70 when heading north though. That helps, me because it puts me on the starboard bow of boats running astride making northbound a beeline from FL 2 and it's always good to be the stand-on vessel in places like that...

Heading south toward FL 3 is never much of a problem, I turn hard to starboard at the light and head straight for FL 80, keeping right as much as possible. If I go toward Weirs beach or Meredith, I go around the outside of Eagle Island, from one red topped spar to the next. I think everyone headed toward Weirs/Meredith westbound should do the same. Would have made FL2 a lot more pleasant to deal with prior to the no-wake zone.

03-19-2007, 12:30 PM	#8
Dave R Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,985 Thanks: 246 Thanked 744 Times in 444 Posts	FLL, you took a kayak through there?!!!! Lucky to be alive, lucky to be alive... I don't think there needs to be a no-wake zone near FL3 (yet). It's always single file and perhaps 20 to 25 MPH on both sides when I go through. Not exactly fun, but not hard to deal with. I tend to enter that area from the northeast side of FL 70 when heading north though. That helps, me because it puts me on the starboard bow of boats running astride making northbound a beeline from FL 2 and it's always good to be the stand-on vessel in places like that... Heading south toward FL 3 is never much of a problem, I turn hard to starboard at the light and head straight for FL 80, keeping right as much as possible. If I go toward Weirs beach or Meredith, I go around the outside of Eagle Island, from one red topped spar to the next. I think everyone headed toward Weirs/Meredith westbound should do the same. Would have made FL2 a lot more pleasant to deal with prior to the no-wake zone.