From the category archives:

Boating

The Navy? Really? Yep, the SeaBees

August 15, 2009

This week I received an e-mail from a gentleman who said he was with the Center for Seabees and Facilities Engineering, and that they wanted to request our permission for the Department of the Navy to use one of our copyrighted articles. Specifically, he wanted to reprint the article Tom wrote for Tropical Boating on [...]

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Daylight Throwing-Away Time

November 2, 2008

Every year at this time of year, I’m reminded of how much I hate the switch back to “standard time.” That might make sense in the rest of the country, but I live in Florida, and things are different here.
I’ve always thought that we here in Florida should be on a Daylight Saving Time/Standard Time [...]

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Selling Affordable Boats

February 18, 2008

My husband works for a yacht brokerage in Punta Gorda. He gets at least one call or visit every week from someone who wants to sell a boat that’s simply too low-cost for the brokerage to list it. The brokerage, like most yacht brokerages, charges a commission based on a percentage of the boat’s sale [...]

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Boaters in January

January 12, 2008

My husband and I are lucky enough to live in sunny southwest Florida, where we can go out in our kayaks, our Boston Whaler, or our sailboat year-round, including January. We were just out sailing in Charlotte Harbor in the Corsair F-27 last Sunday. In shorts and shirt sleeves. It can get cold here, sometimes [...]

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