It’s a long way away for me before I will begin the sail home from Florida on Integrity up the ICW. However I have started my digging into the way home and want to share a few things along the way. One of the key tools that I will utilize on the route home will be the infamous “Bobs Tracks”. https://bobicw.blogspot.com/

BOB423 ICW routes is a very active website/Facebook group that has a wealth of information that can be had for free. It’s an amazing amount of material and it’s constantly being updated. The easiest way to get started is to go to the website and to locate the GPX files for the segment of the ICW that you are looking at and load these into your favorite Chart Plotter. Im currently using the ORCA platform as my paid platform and QTVLM as my free platform. QTVLM is a super powerful tool that is completely cross platform and one that if you have not checked out it’s worth spending some time with it and getting to know it. It can be found here: https://www.meltemus.com/index.php/en/

As I work my way north in the spring I will update on how it’s going with the Bobs Tracks and what I uncover.