What is the longest run you have done in one day on your searay?

So if I said the most I've done is 16 miles you lot would just laugh..

It is not about the NM you travel - rather the enjoyment of the miles you experience.

Reference to the other topic on "Are you a boater".
 
I ran Naples FL, down to Keys and around to East Greenwich RI a couple months ago - took 12 days but stayed in two ports two days each because we liked them. Great trip. If you have the opportunity do it, you won't regret it - you only live once. Even the grueling days are cherished. It s what it's all about for me. That's a great run you have planned, lots of options to fuel and hold up if needed. Sometimes the journey is as or more important than the destination. Do it do it do it.
 
Stuart, Fla. to West End, Grand Bahamas, 4+ hours in the Gulf Stream. Stop for gas, and clear customs. 1hr West End Grand, to Grand Cay (Double Breasted) 3 hours. 8 hour day standing sitting at the helm of a 240da = worn out.
 
Back when we had the 300DA we did Key West to downtown St Pete in one day. Took about 12hrs if I remember correct. Worst part was no auto-pilot. I have auto-pilot now!
 
125 Miles. From the top of the North Fork St. Lucie River down to Stuart then up the Indian River to Merritt Island just down Barge Canal from where the boat was originally built.
 
Auckland to Picton NZ.. 630nm..over 3 days, 4 crew. helm, lookout, navigator (general duties), with 1 resting in 1 hour cycles, average speed 17 knots, fuel at 87l/hr. Quite a harrowing experience and not one Im in a hurry to duplicate.
Weather is very changeable in this part of the Pacific with sudden wind changes (not forecast) being the major risk factor.
Longest non stop run 240nm.
 
My longest run was from Alexander Bay in northern NY, down to Syarcuse NY, involving the saint Lawrence River, crossing lake Ontario, then locking thru 7 locks on the NY barge canal from Oswego to Syracuse. An interesting 12 hour day.
 
My longest was about 215 mi. Astor, FL, up the St. John’s and the back down the ICW to her new home in Merritt Island. Took three days at mostly cocktail speed.

Last day was the longest ~12-13 hours from St. Augustine down. Very long slow manatee zones along that stretch.
 
I thought I would start an old thread back. I finally made the trip to Marthas vineyard from New Jersey this past weekend.
265 miles 11 hours split in 2 days.
we had fog most of the way, thank god for radar, what a trip!! first leg was brick NJ to Orient Point NY with a stop at port washington NY, second leg orient point to MV with a stop at Point judith RI.
Pictures and video to follow!!
 
Still Mackinac Island to Hammond, IN. No autopilot at the time, I was hallucinating by the time I made Hammond.
 
Sturgeon Bay, WI to Winthrop Harbor, IL. 7+ hours ~ 170 nm. With an autopilot...
 
From one end of our pool on the Ohio River to the other end, or about 10 miles. Sorry...lol. That's our longest trip. Done it several times though.
 
Longest for me was Chicago (Hammond) to Charlevoix. 10 hours 45 minutes. The 45 minutes was for fuel in Frankfort. Ran the rhumb line up the middle of the lake to Big Sable - lots of open water and no phone/internet service. This was also early in the season (April 23, 2016) so never saw one other boat and lake temps were reading 38*.

I’m not following how it took one of you 12 hours to go from Harbor to Spring Lake and the other 22 hours from Mackinac Island to Michigan City?
 
Longest for me was Chicago (Hammond) to Charlevoix. 10 hours 45 minutes. The 45 minutes was for fuel in Frankfort. Ran the rhumb line up the middle of the lake to Big Sable - lots of open water and no phone/internet service. This was also early in the season (April 23, 2016) so never saw one other boat and lake temps were reading 38*.

I’m not following how it took one of you 12 hours to go from Harbor to Spring Lake and the other 22 hours from Mackinac Island to Michigan City?
I had to stop for fuel in Ludington, then rumb line course to Hammond. Not sure what you aren’t following, 300 plus miles in varying seas, it took what it took.
 
@carterchapman has to hold some kind of record in this category.
After Hurricane Micheal hit Panama City/ Mexico Beach/Apalachicola last Sept, we spent 5 days in Mobile waiting for it to pass, then we went non-stop Mobile to Cape Coral - 535 miles/52 hours - straight - no power of fuel in the Panhandle. Just to show you what a glutton for punishment Susan and I must be, we did it in reverse this past May! NEVER AGAIN!! What we thought would be a "leisurely" 4 hrs ON/4 hrs OFF, beam seas changed it to 52 hours of bridge catnaps - NOT FUN!! BOTH TIMES!

I'll say this, those MAN's never missed a beat, and the boat never complained.
 
Last Oct when we picked up the new to us boat in Port Washington NY we ran for 8hrs to Falmouth, MA. The first 6hrs were and easy ride up the sound with autopilot on most of the time except for the stray buoy. The wind was pushing us probably blowing around 15-20mph with 3-4ft seas following. The last 2hrs were awful, in the dark, wind blowing 30+ With current coming down the bay around 3mph so it was stacking up the water to 8-9ft waves following. We got turned sideways a few times when waves I couldn’t see caught up to us.
 

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