During our sailing journey I tracked and recorded not just the route and miles we sailed but many other data points so that I could do some analysis on the trip after our return. Since returning home, I've consolidated this data for one final post as a summary of the overall trip. I also created a detailed route map of the entire journey, and linked the daily journals to locations on the map. This is something I was hoping to do along the way but I found the writing and posting consumed all the time I was willing to commit being behind a screen.
Our 246 day journey took us through three countries, two provinces, ten US states, and 4,723 nautical miles (5,435 statute). On the days we sailed (which was 49% of the time), we averaged 39 nautical miles (45 statute). Our trusty dinghy zipped us across 359 nautical miles (413 statute) of water. We passed through 62 locks and so many bridges I stopped counting.
We also did a lot of walking, covering 1,106 kilometres or an average of 9 kilometers per day when we were on land. When we weren't walking, we were swimming (8 kilometres), driving (3,056 kilometres), taking busses (119 kilometres), biking (33 kilometres), or paddling (23.5 nautical miles).
In the Bahamas we caught 11 conch, 7 reef fish, and 5 lobsters but, sadly, were not able to catch any ocean game fish despite a lot of trying.
This trip of a lifetime cost us $35,898, averaging $4,378 per month or $146 per day. I tracked only a few categories, shown below:
Boat maintenance - $2,563
Dockage and moorings - $4,758
Fuel - $3,766
Locks - $358
Water - $98
Other - $24,354
The major trip segments, distances in nautical miles, and days were as follows:
Erie Canal - 158 miles, 6 days
Hudson River - 129 miles, 10 days
New York City to ICW - 403 miles, 20 days
ICW - 915 miles, 34 days
Bahamas - 1023 miles, 76 days
ICW Return - 892 miles, 25 days
ICW to New York City - 266 miles, 4 days
Hudson River Return - 186 miles, 29 days
Champlain, Chambly Canals - 274 miles, 8 days
St. Lawrence Seaway - 171 miles, 4 days
Lake Ontario Return - 165 miles, 2 days
Finally, the map. This is a Google map which can be viewed and shared by anybody (although the link doesn’t seem to be working for everybody so there is also an embedded version below). The orange line represents the outbound track, the blue line is the Bahamas, and green line is the inbound track. Clicking any of the blue icons will bring up the daily journal for that day. I have embedded the map below.
And that concludes our 2024/2025 Journey to the Sun!
Good job tracking all that. Kind of funny The mooring cost more than fuel. That was definitely a trip of a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteI am so impressed with the details in your tracking! Perry tracks all of our expenses in a spreadsheet and probably could get close on the level of detail you have here, so now I’m curious about our own stats…but we are on to spending more money on more stuff here at home, which is consuming our time now 🤣. You’ve done such a great job with this, Kris. The sense of accomplishment from this undertaking is so satisfying, isn’t it? Browsed through pics this morning and reminisced over sea turtles. Before we know it we will be saying, “One year ago today we set out on an epic journey to the Bahamas.”
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