I am at Fort Meyers, Fl. At Legacy Harbor Marina. This is a real nice marina. They have invited me to a pot luck tonight. Sam Taylor who I met back on Kentucky Lake and his dog River are here also. Will be here 5 days, doing a little work on the boat. Weather nice.
I am at Boca Grande, Fl. At Widden’s Marina. This is a 1925 marina and nothing has changed. They even have two pet pigs here. Its a rough place with million dollar plus homes all around it. Plan on heading on in the morning.
I am at Royal Palm Marina in Englewood, Fl. They do not have courtesy cars. But they have bikes. Rode one today into town. Gee my butt was sore. This is a small marina that is open to the channel. Boat really bouncing around. Kind of reminds me of Fort Walton Marina where the [...]
I don’t know if you can see me in this picture. down at the bottom, got hold of something. Don’t worry about the sailor boy, I can handle him. (If you can’t see very well, click on picture to make it bigger)
This is a nice marina. Called Marina Jack’s. in Sarasota Fl. It is by far the biggest marina I have stayed in. Bet they have 200 slips. Today went well, nice weather and no problems going down Sarasota Bay. Temp. Around 70 tonight around 60. Hope to be just south of Venice, Fl. by [...]
Crossing Tampa Bay today no problems. Found a marina called Seafood Shack’s. Nice restaurant and all night tie up for $1.25 a foot. Ruby the gentleman on the right and his son in law came down to see me. Ruby has a 39 foot trawler. I meet him at Pebble Isle Marina on [...]
Tampa Bay kicked my butt today. Only went about 19 miles and bailed out to Shell Marina. Ran aground 3 times trying to get into this marina. What a deal. Will get back into the intercoastal tomorrow. Not 100% where this marina is, but had the guy go over how to get back into [...]
This is Aubrey and Rita Patterson. I had the pleasure of working with Rita prior to her retirement. They are about 5 miles from the marina I am staying at. The last two days they have drove me all over getting different supplies, laundry ect. Then cooked dinner for me. They are staying at [...]
This is a biker bar by the marina. The bikers here make Illinois bikers look like wimps. This is what they pull behind their bikes. In the left picture the sign reads, “Bikers Only”.
Sam Taylor on his special modified pontoon boat called River Rat. His dog “River” travels with him all the time. I met Sam at Pebble Isle on Kentucky Lake and he cooked dinner at Demopolis while waiting out the pains from Tropical Storm Ida. His boat is at Homeport Marina while he spends Christmas [...]
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