Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate Invasion
 

Wow what fantastic weather we had this weekend. Early in the week it was cold and rainy a few days and we were all hoping for drier and warmer weather for Saturday's Gasparilla Invasion- Friday afternoon the wind died and by noon on Saturday it was close to 70 degrees on the bay. Once we get through all of our pics I should have more interesting stuff to post. Below are a couple of pics just to give you an idea of how Gasparilla begins on the water.

Boats of all sizes starting to line up to follow the Jose Gaspar-http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/IMG_0602.jpg

The Jose Gaspar starting to lead the flotilla towards Harbor Island- Grand Marshal Jim Belushi on the port side of bow with white shirt and headphones-
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Side view of pirate ship-
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Nice looking 336-
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Very nice looking Stinger-
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Saw a lot of other nice boats that may be represented here on the board but my assignments included drinking and throwing beads so I missed getting pictures of a couple of nice fountains, a white black thunder, a newer Donzi 38ZR.

Forecast for the next three days is clear and 70's wooohoo :drink:

Rick

I was there and it was a blast! Definitely a good time! The weather was great and there were tons of boats out there, overall couldn't ask for a nicer day! :drink: The scenery was also good if you know what I mean. lol

Gasparilla was great!! perfect weather! Good pics too

Thanks for pics! Nice. Looks like a great event again.
The weather was fantastic this weekend.