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If it is westerly on Tuesday, it is way too far off at this point to say whether it will be or not reliably btw, your best bet would be to take a sea taxi out to the Miami Flats. You could drive to Islamorada where if you're lucky you might hook up with a boat to Florida Bay, west of the Keys. Otherwise you might grab a boat eastward to the sandbar. The sandbar still has some wind shadow from land effects in west winds. West is a poor direction for shoreside launch in SE Florida in general. Boat accessible launches in Biscayne Bay and the Keys can work out better. True west can be sideshore in Key West but wind hangs in the west as a rule for a limited amount of time before clocking NW to N, or offshore there.