Not many center consoles can say they’ve traveled on their own bottom 2,400+ miles from Sarasota, FL to Papagayo, Costa Rica and lived to tell about it. Here’s the caption from Barker Boatworks Instagram post above that announced this epic journey: It has a fuel capacity of 770 gallons but they were also running with a few fuel bladders on board. The boat they took was a 40′ High Performance Cat made by Barker Boatworks. You’ll have to scroll through the Instagram gallery, but the boat’s owner Mat Wood tells a wild story of a panga coming out to try and stop them but they just gunned the throttles and took off.Ī post shared by Barker Boatworks of their 2,400-mile journey from Sarasota, FL to the Pacific coast of Panama It’s an area that’s notorious for modern pirate activity where small crews in high-speed pangas will run up on unsuspecting sailboats or slow-moving crafts too close to shore and rob them. From here they rode to Isla Mujeres which is a picturesque island just off Cancun with a cool sea turtle sanctuary and a hostile with cheap beer, at least that’s my memory of it from a few years back.įrom Isla Mujeres, Mexico they rode to Honduras and from Honduras to Panama they entered ‘pirate waters’ when going ‘around the horn’ of Honduras and Nicaragua. The trip began in my hometown of Sarasota, Florida. You NEVER hear about any traveling a thousand miles in a center console let alone 2,400 miles!
Or from the East Coast of Florida to The Bahamas, they’ll ride over with two people on the boat and the rest will fly.
Friends of mine with center consoles able to cover a few hundred miles often do trips from my hometown to the Florida Keys by themselves and have their families fly down.
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