Oct, boating in paradise, SW Florida
10-09-2010 | 04:03 PM
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Oct, boating in paradise, SW Florida
Just another beautiful day here in paradise!
The Skater is on the trailer, getting ready for the FMO 2010-2011 season, and today was so perfect, (air temp 85, humidity 33%, clear blue skies, clear light green seas, sea water temp 78, wings 5mph, seas 1 foot or less), I just had to go boating.
I lowered the 23 Stringray, 230LX, 350magMPI/Bravo-1 off the lift and had a great day. I went out the Myakka River, south down Charlotte Harbor, west to Boca Grande Pass, out into the Gulf, around the Johnson Shoals, south to a nice secluded spot on the west side of Cayo Costa island. Then I headed back to a quite spot on the SE side of the island.
Round trip was a total of 55 miles, I burned 17.1 gallons of 87 octane, that 3.2mpg.
Enjoy!
all 67 pictures
It is a boating board, so here is the boat
Paradise found
Island residents
all 67 pictures
The Skater is on the trailer, getting ready for the FMO 2010-2011 season, and today was so perfect, (air temp 85, humidity 33%, clear blue skies, clear light green seas, sea water temp 78, wings 5mph, seas 1 foot or less), I just had to go boating.
I lowered the 23 Stringray, 230LX, 350magMPI/Bravo-1 off the lift and had a great day. I went out the Myakka River, south down Charlotte Harbor, west to Boca Grande Pass, out into the Gulf, around the Johnson Shoals, south to a nice secluded spot on the west side of Cayo Costa island. Then I headed back to a quite spot on the SE side of the island.
Round trip was a total of 55 miles, I burned 17.1 gallons of 87 octane, that 3.2mpg.
Enjoy!
all 67 pictures
It is a boating board, so here is the boat
Paradise found
Island residents
all 67 pictures
10-09-2010 | 10:20 PM
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Nice, Frank and thanks. The weather in SW Florida this last while has been unbelievably nice. A great time of the year. Hans, Marc and i took Jay down to Key West yesterday to help him celebrate his birthday and back today. Trelfa's came along in their 42 Outerlimits. I'm sorry, but we cannot share the pictures of Jay ! LOL See you soon,
Bob
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10-10-2010 | 11:59 AM
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Nice, Frank and thanks. The weather in SW Florida this last while has been unbelievably nice. A great time of the year. Hans, Marc and i took Jay down to Key West yesterday to help him celebrate his birthday and back today. Trelfa's came along in their 42 Outerlimits. I'm sorry, but we cannot share the pictures of Jay ! LOL See you soon,
Bob
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10-10-2010 | 12:14 PM
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I look forward to doing more boating with you guys in the future.
Bob
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10-13-2010 | 03:30 AM
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Welcome to SOS and FMO, Glen. It was great to get to know you and Laurel and we really enjoyed our short time in Key West. It's always an adventure. I have a few pics in my camera which I left on the boat and will get later today, but the really good pics were taken by Jay and some can be found here: http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/g...h-o-t-o-s.html
I look forward to doing more boating with you guys in the future.
Bob
I look forward to doing more boating with you guys in the future.
Bob
10-24-2010 | 02:09 PM
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Hi Frank, my 1st post on this site but just had to say I love your photos. I'm from the UK and I will be in Cape Coral in July 2011 to do a lot of boating and fishing and after looking at your photos I must say you live in a beautiful part of the world...you are so lucky and I can't wait to see some of it 1st hand.
John
John
