Weather, small planes, good decisions

We wanted to fly the Remos to the Bahamas. If you need to keep a schedule, don't take a light plane or a sailboat!
I apologize for some of the pilot-jargon. MYGF is the airport in Freeport. SAV and BQK are the ones in Savannah and Brunswick. When I put "L" behind a military time it means "local time". My type of license prohibits flight at night, or if the visibily is less than 3 miles or through or over clouds.

We didn't make it to MYGF this trip. I cancelled the Thursday plan for weather enroute and excessive delays starting. The doc wanted me to get some lab work which slowed me down and resulted in a 2+30 delay from my planned 0900L departure. WX in the FLL area was looking bad and the headwinds were gonna eat up my reserves. But the real problem was daylight. I was looking at arriving in less than optimal wx, with less fuel and only 30 minutes of useable daylight. Rejected that idea.
Friday we had a shot at an early (0800L) launch. I spent about 15 minutes talking to a briefer about the wx in central FL and got airborne at 0807 for SAV, Brunswick (Glynco) and then fuel in St. Augustine. Nice ride to SAV, then forced down to 3500 by clouds. A little light rain, then, near BQK down to my "no lower" of 2500. As we got to the prohibited area around the Kings Bay Sub base, it could see 20-30 miles into FL. And it wasn't good! A solid shield below me in the distance. The controller was calling the destination IFR at 900, the way west blocked, and no smart way to pick through it. Left 180 kept me outta the restricted area and we went back up to BQK intendfing to have lunch and try again. There's a low-pressure trough hugging the FL east coast that means more east-west wet flow into this unusually cold airmass. FLL and MYGF will be fine, the 80 miles between will not.
So we're going to enjoy Jekyll this weekend and try to go somewhere Sunday or Monday. Except that the WX is looking bad again.
The bad part about Sport pilot is no IFR. The good part about Sport pilot is no IFR. Ditto night flying.
I had fun using all the Garmin and XMWX toys to help the decision along, but the turnaround was a good choice. It's hard to crash when you're tied down!

My friend ( and pilot-mentor) Robert had given me a strategy for dealing with weather. See if you can make it to the next airport 20-30 miles away. If that works try the next one. Then land an wait out the weather. If I had done that Thursday, I'd probably be in Freeport tonight rather than not at all. Thursday we had the time to get to Daytona for the night, leave before Daytona got bad and try the Freeport crossing in the early afternoon Friday. Now I'm stuck with more bad weather south and the north looking bad for Sunday.
Worst-case is we rent a car for the trip to Augusta and drive down to get the plane next week.