Fort Lauderdale to Bimini: Stream crossing metrics

Bimini is not a node in the Fort Lauderdale canal graph. It is a Gulf Stream crossing after Port Everglades. We still publish the route because owners ask as if it were a longer ICW. It is not. Distance is on the order of fifty nautical miles depending on the Bimini landfall. The Stream, the weather window, and the vessel’s actual draft on the Banks are the overlay. The New River is irrelevant once you have cleared the inlet — and fatal if you have not.

Local graph contribution: get to Port Everglades first (see Las Olas and New River routes). Offshore: Gulf Stream set, a daylight Bar if the vessel is not a sportfish that likes night, and Bahamian clearance that is paperwork plus a marina that will take the beam. Draft that survived Harbor Beach can still fail a Banks shortcut someone drew on a phone. We do not Dijkstra across the Stream. Metrics below are planning figures, not a voyage plan. Not legal advice on customs.