Solo ICW Boat Trip - NY to Florida ep22 - Daytona to Merritt Island 

Can’t wait to be back on Happy Ours 🍸🥂

Thanks for flying the Blue Line flag. Retired from DeKalb Ga after 28 years….HellOfARide🤪🤣👍🇺🇸

The Garlic is actually a well established restaurant in NSB and I believe that is the owners boat

Vero Beach Florida 🏖️⛱️🏖️

derelict boats are a massive hazard here in the Florida Keys, they spill oil, fuel and sewage. liveaboards down here also pump sewage straight into the water. Nobody checks to see how often boats are pumped out.

nice, you going to Ft.LAUDERDALE? MY HOMETOWN. lived in Wilton manors, graduated ft.lauderdale L'S 1982

That Coast Guard boat shown in the video is a aids to navigation team (ATON) small boat working buoys on the ICW. Every buoy or aid normally has a periodic maintenance schedule to scrape them, repaint them, change out broken equipment. It's hard work, so if you see them out there working make sure to say special thanks for keeping up the network of aids to navigation. It's a thankless job and doesn't have the glorious rewards like the other CG missions do, but it also one of the most important missions the CG has.

I appreciate the blue lives matter flag. God bless you my friend.

Yes, asa Boater in Florida anywhere! You have to watch out for crab pots! They set them everywhere! We have lived down here for four years now! Gotta watch the crab pots!

@3:20 must be so he doesn't have to worry about sea vampires.

Cool videos. Thank you. I see you utilize your tablet with your GPS MAP. What app do you prefer for the tablet. Thank you.

I think I just passed you in Maryland at Kent Narrows. I Boat has the same name as yours.

Imagine navigating that trip without gps

👍⛵🎣⛵🌊💯

Nice man. That's my fishing area.

Like they say in fla brown run aground blue run on thu

I’ll never understand how someone can abandon a boat. There are tons of them where I live. Frustrating.

How does it feel boating alone does it get lonely or ur not out that long just curious

We don't call them "kayaks' on our boat -- instead we call them "speed bumps" 🙂

I'm really surprised that their are ad many sunken/abandoned boats as their are. Ide guess it has to do with the owners being responsible for the cost of removal, and if they don't, then ide guess the state gets involved, hires a salvage company to recover the sunken boats then sues the current Owners

I love boat names, too. "Fire in the Hole" 😅

The Garlic is a restaurant in New Smyrna Beach, I assume he owns the restaurant. I live in New Smyrna.

The Garlic is named after the restaurant he owns

The Garlic is owned by a family that owns a restaurant by the same name in New Smyrna Beach.

That was a good video I would love to do something like that one day. PS be safe on your journey

Wooohoo~total cool done! wanna more followers?-

brevard county... my neck of the woods..

Went through my old stomping grounds in Merritt Island

I'd like to own a seaplane one day and charter flights in the Caribbean.

Thanks for sharing your journey ! It has been so fun to watch. We pick up our boat next Thursday and it sure is fun seeing some great areas in the IWC to boat, not far from us in Sebastian. Many of this boats that are sunken are from storms and it takes many organizations coming together finding the owners , legalities , permits and monies to get them removed, sadly. We have one in our town that is still here years after hurricane Nicole. Thanks again and looking forward to checking out your other adventures now that we found your channel. Fair winds and following sea!

Awesome, One day I hope I can do this

I have attentively followed along but the steak was the distraction.

The video is wonderful 👍 brother much appreciated and love to you Sir 😊😅

It is truly sad to see all those boats just left there!

Nice ribeye

Most of those abandoned boats are likely hurricane victims.

Hello captain you are now in my fishing waters Especially mosquito lagoon and Cape Canaveral Navigate safe captain

Welcome to Rockledge!! Didn’t know you were stopping by! Another northern transplant saying hi and safe travels.

You're anchored less than half a mile south of our house.

Great video. It reminded me of my two years stationed in Cape Canaveral with the Coast Guard back in the mid-eighties. My wife and I loved to watch the regular space shuttle lift-offs back then. The night launches were really impressive and shook our apartment building. Unfortunately, we were there when the shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986. Sad times around the space coast when that happened.

I lived near Melbourne/Merritt Island when I was a kid. We used to drive over the Pineda Causeway a lot when we went to Patrick Air Force Base where my dad was stationed. Went to many shuttle launches including the Challenger which was a sad day.

Keep em coming! Nice to be back on the boat again! (virtually) Heck of a trip.

"The Garlic" yacht is named after "The Garlic" restaurant in NSB.

What would be really neat is to have a polarized lens on the camera to show the shoal water as to put it in perspective how narrow the channels really are on the ICW. Great video series

Great video! Any chance you will be doing the keys as well? I've always been interested ever since watching Key Largo, but other than seeing them on maps have never really seen them. It would be great to see them from your prospective if it happens to be part of your travels.

Do you ever plan on taking the boat back north or are you guys in Cape Coral for good?

ponce deli on not ponce de leon

You did well to avoid the shallows! Great job and nice video!!!

They're shrimping. In the channel there.

It’s great watching your videos, I helped my dad bring his boat back from Fort Myers’s to palm coast back in the early eighties a great trip , look forward to seeing more of your videos.

Nice trip!!

謝謝你的分享！祝你好運👍！

They were cast neeting for shrimp. It was actually a good season for them.

I don't want this trip to end, these videos are very good

I have been following you for a year now. My wife and I bought an 07 341 last December. I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you for the hard work and time you put in to producing them. I would love to sit down and swap repair stories over a cold one. It has been a challenge to get " The Life" ( our boats name) ship shape but I love working on her. My wife is dead set on being at the coast. We are on a large fresh water lake in upstate South Carolina. I have boated on the intercoastal in Wilmington NC. I prefer fresh water for many reasons. Our question to you is, after the trip and the hurricane is it worth it being in Florida?

Excellent video, what percent of the route on this video is a 6 mph no wake zone

I'll wave when you move south of the Pineda Causeway!

I am wondering what app you are using for the daily numbers ( Avg Mpg , Gph , Avg Speed Departure and arrival locations, etc etc ). Would you please let me know, I would like to start using it myself.

I really enjoy your channel! Do you all have a Seakeeper onboard?

Hey Tom… do you have an email to send you a question? Thanks…Mike

Scared under the bridge????😂😂😂😂😂 Omg tragic

Dude I wanted a photo of that steak!!

It's a shame that you have to expose the desecration of the American flag. Shame on you. As a captain I would not allow that in my department too many heroes have given their life for the red white and blue

thanks for another awesome video man!