This trip should start sometime in Oct 2011, the plan is to put in at the top of the Suwanee river which starts in White Springs Florida. The Suwanee empties into the Gulf of Mexico and then kayak down the West coast of Florida all the way to Key West. Am currently working on my kayak to make it more stable and also allow me to sail a little bit, almost finished and will take a test run soon. This whole set up cost me about ten dollars to build. Have designed it so that the main rigger separates into three pieces and it will allow me to pull the floats next to the kayak if I want to explore narrower streams, fully extended it is 9 feet(3 meters) wide. The floats are made of swim noodles and 2 liter soda bottles. the sail is made from a poncho, have also designed it use my rain tarp from my tent for a bigger sail to go downwind only.. here is a link to a guide to the Suwanee river
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/suwannee/. and here is a link to a guide for the rest of the trip down to the keys.
http://www.floridapaddlingtrails.com/. Only a couple of weeks before I depart, YIPPEE.
Tested the outriggers and sail and it works great.
