"BACKTRACKING"
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Excerpt: " Well, perhaps backtracking is not exactly the right term. As Bob so aptly put it, we have weaned ourselves from Bahia Mar Marina in Fort Lauderdale, and have returned to Miami. I prefer to ... "
"PELICANS"
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Excerpt: " An amazing bird, the pelican… His beak can hold more than his belly can. Pelicans? This blog MIGHT be an indication that we are provisioned, fueled, packed (bored) and ready to go. The other o... "
"ELEPHANTS ON THE HORIZON
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Excerpt: " This morning, the view to the north across our bow, looks really inviting - blue, almost cloudless skies and a brisk but gentle wind. The view across our stern toward the Atlantic tells a different s... "
TEXAS: No matter how far we travel, we still have Texas in our hearts. What I like About Texas
"MAX & SOPHIE"
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Excerpt: " Saturday, we were blessed with a visit from four of our great friends from Stevedore. Max and Sophie brought their owners, Stephen and Sharon to visit. We have traveled on and off with all of them si... "
"SLUGGISH ECONOMY"
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Excerpt: " As Ken Kaye of the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel wrote today, “Everything’s forecast today but locusts.” We are expecting really freaky weather here in South Florida, which means tha... "
"A1A MARATHON"
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Excerpt: " Since the recent beach celebrations the Pro Bowl, the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras, our Sunday mornings have been pretty quiet around this marina. Not so yesterday. We were awakened before dawn by cheer... "
"ARE YOU READY?"
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Excerpt: " Back at Lakewood Yacht Club, good friends and long time cruisers, Ken and Candace, invited us to participate with other LYC members in a Captains Roundtable discussion about what it’s like to c..."
"STAYING CONNECTED"
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Excerpt: " I have taken “being easily connected with family, friends, prospects and clients” too lightly for too long. Before starting this trek, we just picked up the phone and dialed, or emailed a... "
"GULF STREAM"
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Excerpt: " Many of you have wondered why we have been here since January 23 to cross over to the Bahamas. True, we have been here a few weeks, but there was the Boat Show and TrawlerFest event, a...
"V-DAY"
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Excerpt: " My Valentine’s Birthday was great – we celebrated the entire weekend. After all, we do consider it TWO separate events (Bob learned that early in our courtship – ha). The weather co... "
"OOOOOOPs!"
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Excerpt: " DATELINE WEST PALM BEACH – “After racing to prevent an environmental disaster, the Coast Guard sought to calm fears late Thursday that 30 shipping containers that fell off a freighter in ... "
"BARENAKED LADIES ON THE BEACH"
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Excerpt: " I have never seen an entire state with such stamina! The Super Bowl mania events started January 28 with the Art & Jazz Festival and have built momentum up to today – Game Day! The events a... "
"MEGA YACHTS"
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Excerpt: " Remember a few blogs back when I was so taken with the awesome yachts that we saw in Key West? Ha. Those were dinghies compared to what we have seen here in Fort Dollardale! True, there are some larg... "
"MAC MANSIONS"
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Excerpt: " Unbelievable! Were it not for our excursion on the Water Taxi, we would not have seen and heard the stories of the homes of the celebs, tycoons and moguls building homes and living in the Venice of A... "
"VENICE OF AMERICA"
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Excerpt: " Our two weeks of safe harbor at Bahia Mar and our recent rental car excursion haven’t really provided an opportunity for us to explore the rivers and waterways that gave Ft Lauderdale its nickn... "
"STARBUCKS STARVED"
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Excerpt: " One of the TrawlerFest seminars we attended was about cruising in the Bahamas and it really got our attention – to details that is. We ended up with a three page list of “MUST have and MU... "
"FLAT CARSON"
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Excerpt: " In my last blog I wrote about those folks who have always boated and owned boats but are currently “between.” That’s the situation our friend Tom is in. We were delighted that his s... "
"BOAT SHOW"
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Excerpt: " There are many types of people who attend boat shows and some of them would be the boater who is currently “between” boats and looking, the boat owner who is trading up or down and lookin... "
"TRAWLERFEST"
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Excerpt: " As I mentioned before, a TrawlerFest (Solomon’s Island, 1996) was what got us hooked on this lifestyle and adventure. We attended that one with our good friends Karen & Rhese and John &... "
"FEBRUARY HOME PORT"
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Excerpt: " Spirit Dancer front and center. We selected the Bahia Mar Yachting Center as our late-January through February home port for several reasons. One, it’s where TrawlerFest and Boat Show was held ... "
"INITIAL WALKABOUT"
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Excerpt: " We elected to be in Ft Lauderdale this month because of TrawlerFest. This great boating and cruising event is held in many parts of the country several times each year. In fact, it was our ..."
"MIAMI TO FT LAUDERDALE"
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Excerpt: " Since this promised to be one of the most exciting visual legs of our Florida ICW cruise, we took an extra “lay day” at Crandon Marina and waited out the “choppy seas” and win... "
"CRUISING - BIG TIME"
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Excerpt: " The cruising industry is a large and growing market, and currently the Caribbean is the most popular destination. Per Wikipedia, “cruising has grown from an estimated 900,850 passengers in 1983... "
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