It's been a while since I've been on here; I ended up taking a different job an moved to Florida from the frozen North. I'm used to lakes near my former home, but where would be good to get the DaySailer out here? I live by Clewiston, so a little over an hour to either coast or I did see some lakes to the North, besides Okeechobee. My limited research so far is that Okeechobee isn't really good for sailing around. Is it wise to sail up and down the coast on either side as long as I'm not too far out? It would be kind of neat to do that and beach the boat wherever we wanted to.
I do have some work to do before I can sail though. Our boat & trailer was picked up, barrel rolled 360 degrees, then slammed into an electrical tap can about 20 feet away by either a microburst or small tornado in May. It tore the strap over the boat holding it to the trailer and broke the bow eye off, separating them. The trailer was lying across the top of the boat. Surprisingly, the only damage to the boat was the bow eye, a 1/6" or so gouge on the bottom, and the boom crutch was broken. The trailer had a bunch of dirt and grass stuffed in the boom crutch from landing upside down.