How far have you been "Offshore" in your boat??
 

So.... how far from land have you been in your boat?

Big sportfishes, yachts, and blowbotes don't count.

How many have taken their Cigs, fountains, formulas, etc. truly offshore?

I'll go first-

Naples to Key West put us roughly 40-50 miles from land in my 303. We've also taken the boat 20 miles or so off the carolina coast, and have been all over lake Erie.

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not sure what the signifigance of being "off shore" is...but we have clocked 230 ish miles in 3 days. Ocean was about 3-4's. we were about 3-6 miles offshore mostly.

as an aside, the most we have been offshore is probably around 15-20 miles.

I know a certain Sutphen owner took his boat to the moon...I think he has the record...:party-smiley-004:

Winner. Hands down. Might as well close the thread...:coolcowboy:

I guess eggbeaters run much better in the vacuum of space...

Not to be outdone...
 

A true offshore legend for the win :party-smiley-004:

... Crusing the Orion Nebula in the latest prototype.

Crossed 33 miles plymouth mass to tip of cape cod in my 22 scarab a few times ez

Most weekends we either go Channel Islands around Santa Cruz, or San Pedro to and/or around Catalina Island. The furthest in a day was Channel Islands to San Miguel, about 60 miles each way. So 25+ miles off the coast is typical.

On sailboats and power yachts I've been over a thousand miles form shore many times.

:D

I try to keep sight of land on TWO sides of me at all times,,,,,If I can't swim back,, I'm too far,,,,LOL

Did the Bahama's run this year, from Ft. Lauderdale to Bimini Bay 82 miles then Port Lucaya
and then to West End. It was a blast.

I think Bob the Builder is going to win this. I talked to him this summer about the islands and one of his comments was it was only 140 miles between the islands:)

I've taken my center console 100 miles west of Key West does that count?

No land in sight is "offshore" for sure. Been there.....done that. :)

Benton Harbor Mi to Chicago Il 70-75 miles as the crow flies. So I guess that puts me at the 35+ mark. Owe yeah and thats with a single screw and we had 3-5's on the way out. Nice thing about the great lakes it's always smoother on one side or the other. Unless the wind is blowing crazy and depending on the dirrection then it's a different story.

I ran my 23' deckboat from my house on the Amite river in Baton Rouge to Destin. What a blast.:drink:

About 35 miles on Lake Huron. Usually it's more fun to run a few miles off-shore and check out different destinations. It gets very lonely on Lake Huron!

Furthest I've been is about 15 miles. But my bro in-law regularly runs a single screw 21 Whaler out 50 miles in the gulf. Extra gas or not I would like a bigger boat!!!

Ive been 175 of miles from my port (Marina Del Rey to basically Mexico) in my 2750

Ive been 100 miles from Land in a 24 foot fishing boat

I routinely do 70-100 mile round trips to and from Catalina.

Im fully equipped for Navigation in any condition or visibility.

Most guys on this site call running up and down a beach front on the ocean- "offshore" and couldn't drive though fog in a busy harbor with any level of safety.

Uncle Dave

or out of the North :eek::lolhit:

I go fishing 20-30 miles from land on a regular basis and crossed to Bimini from Miami (45 mi.) in my 24' CC, also gone to the Dry Tortugas from Key West (60 mi.+) in my friends 32'.

Never took any of my go fasts more than 10 miles off shore but took my little 17 Whaler 30 miles out to Beaver Island in 3 footers and came back in 4-5's, had to work the throttles like an off shore racer to keep from going airborne lol.

The Bimini~Freeport trip from West Palm or Ft. Lauderdale is a 50~60 mile deal that I have done several times in Formulas from 24~27 footers and once from Miami to Bimini in my 18' Formula.:evilb:

I guess the farthest I have been was in my 272LS with 3: other boats from Key Largo to Cay Sal in the south western Bahamas...which is about 125 miles. On a clear day you can see the mountains in eastern Cuba...kind of scary.:eek:

Very cool!

50+ Out Of Shinicock Canal In My 26 Scarab Cc Single Tuna Fishing

That is very cool!

In our 32' SeaCraft have been 120nm straight out of NJ fishing past Tom's and into the stream itself. Run out all night easy to conserve fuel get there for dawn, troll and then run home.

2010: Miami to Bimini and back as fast as I could go in a 39 Top Gun (and beat a new canopied MTI that didn't break).

I think you're right. :drink:

mountains of western Cuba, en route to Cancun from Key West:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/...fdd0bc8d_o.jpg

Castle Rock, en route to Turks&Caicos from Great Exuma Island:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/...9d64ec62_o.jpg

That's pretty bad ass Tom!

That pretty much trumps everyone!

Bob is King!

110 miles off of Ft. Pierce to Walkers Cay in the Bahamas looking for fuel.

Bob is the king. Met him and Expat (here on OSO) with Predator in the BVI's during the Virgin Island Poker run this past May. He knows how to do it.

We go 60+ miles offshore in my 23' single engine Fountain CC pretty often. We go at least 15 miles every time and usually 30-40 off. We run about 90 miles average a day round trip I would think.
It is kind of funny for some of us to see what a lot of you guys consider "offshore" on a site called OSO. I would say anything inside 20 miles is "nearshore".
Hmmm....maybe I should start www.nearshoremostly.com :)

I love being out deep. The water gets bluer and you never know what will swim up to the boat.

Some pics:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_L2kwaSCz8[/YOUTUBE]

I found it funny that guys on this site were giving fishermen who use waverunners crap for fishing offshore with them, but those guys run them 50+ miles out to fish wish is probably 40 miles farther than *most* posters on this site.

I'm with Jay on this one....Bob's got this hands down:drink:

Running past Cuba to get to Cancun from Key West was unreal.

Miami to Nassau, Nassau to Georgetown etc etc

And St Lucia down to Bequia and then back up all the way past Martinique, Domenica, Guadaloupe, Montserrat, St Kitts (an overnight stay) and then on to St Maarten after breakfast....was pretty unbelievable too....
Not to mention the flying fish at eye level flying/swimming alongside the boat....A whale breaching off our bow, a turtle the size of a VW
Passing the occasional cruise ship was pretty neat as well....

85 miles from shore in a 20' proline.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the term offshore is to be taken quite so literally...

I think the intent of the term offshore is to imply that these boats are generally run in the open ocean. I don't think distance from the shore is a factor. By this definition it means that they aren't generally run/raced/operated in rivers or lakes. That's just my opinion. I could be wrong tho.

Well it's true! (by less than a minute, but did beat him) I still enjoy giving Scism a good ribbing about it!

Ship Island is 15 miles out, then went another 5,never saw over 35ft deep either.Nothing to go to out past there:drink:

I've always wanted to check out San Miguel Island, but only have a sailboat available to me for the blue water excursions, so it takes quite a bit of time to get there.

I don't think you'll be calling Sea Tow from 1000 miles from shore. :-)

Michael