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[Rob Granger]

Hi Austin

How far would you be driving to launch?  I'm wondering if you couldn't hire
some teenaged kid to ride down with you, bring your truck and trailer back
home and pay him to be on call to come fetch you?  You could probably pull
that off for a few hundred bucks and a pizza.  Or you launch, pay transient
slip fees (usually $1.50/day/foot) while you drive the truck home and fly
back or rent a car one way back.  Then reverse the process when you return?

Now that I think on this more... the one way car rental idea would leave
you the option of starting and ending your cruise in a different location,
(WHAT!?)  ...



On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Austin Carter <acarter250 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good question, I haven't gotten that far into planning yet, but I have been
> thinking about it. Right now I'm getting together all the places I would
> like to see and things I want to do when I'm down there. Interesting state
> parks, museums, islands, etc. The dry tortugus is a must on my list,
> weather permitting.
>
> I'm going to be pretty flexable on my launch site, because it's simply a
> sailing trip, so if I'm further from the keys I'll just have to sail
> further :-) no big deal. But as you said, finding somewhere secure to keep
> my truck and trailer for 2+/- months is going to be interesting without
> paying a fortune. Hopefully I can find a marina that will let me launch and
> store my truck for a resonable price. Or a though was a storage facility
> nearby a marina, but I think they are going to want to charge by the month.
> I don't want to have to pay for 3 months if my truck's there for 2 months
> and 1 day, and I don't wanna have to rush back before my time is up either.
> We'll see, that will be a good rainy day project.
>
> Austin
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