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The Suncoast Grady White Boat Club home from the Bahamas!
The Suncoast Grady White Boat Club that Cannons Marina sponsors, are home from their trip to the Bahamas Islands.
Cannons Marina: Suncoast Grady Club Explores Bahamas
Friday – Day 7
Cannons Grady White Club, More Adventures in the Bahamas
Another quiet day on Green Turtle. The Neumans went dump diving, checking out the local dump and the chickens that reside there.
Kathy wanted to take some of the chicks home, but apparently Al decided they wouldn’t do too well on the boat.
The Griffins, Mike Seery and John Pock went to town for a lunch of cracked conch and other seafoods. Lyons and Gaults went beaching and snorkeling.
The day ended with drinks at the Green Turtle Club, dinner and drinks at the Bluff House, drinks at Green Turtle Club and off to bed.
The Suncoast Grady White Club, A Quiet Day in Paradise.
Thursday Day 6-
The Suncoast Grady White club has a quiet day in Paradise.Some went fishing, some went swimming, some drove our little carts into New Plymouth for lunch and we all took naps.
Dinner at Green Turtle Club was wonderful, fresh seafood, most of it caught earlier that day. Not much to report today.
Cannons Marina: Grady White Club, Cruises Bahama Islands.
Day 4 -Tuesday
The Cannons Marina Grady White Club took some well deserved R & R.
The Neumans rented a car and drove to Freeport for a little sightseeing.
The rest of the crews lounged around the pool or took naps or hung out on the beach with pool drinks in hand.
A planning session was held at 5:00 p.m., with the captains arriving at a consensus as to the best waypoints to program into the GPS systems.
Then, as the sun sank over the proverbial yardarm, whatever that is, the crews fell into some tropical drink, a little dinner on the patio overlooking the yacht basin, and then to bed. A quiet day on a beautiful island.
Suncoast Grady White Boat Club Arrived in Bahamas!
DAY 3, MONDAY MAY 4, 2009
0645 -The Suncoast Grady White Club from Cannons Marina loosened the lines and headed to the inlet. The sun was peeking over the trees lining the Manatee Pocket. We followed several large sport fishermen through the pass and out into the broad Atlantic for the 67 nautical mile trip to West End, Bahamas.
The seas were forecast at 2 to 4 feet. I think we were on the high side of that forecast and maybe higher. It was a rough crossing, but the Gradys’ never faltered.
As we crossed the Gulf Stream, the wind seemed to pick up and the ocean got choppier. It took us five and a half hours to make the 67 nautical miles, but we kept plugging along, bows trimmed down, at about 17 knots.
Grady White Boat Club, Across The Florida Locks: Day 2.
Day 2 – Sunday, May 3, 2009
0700 – Cannons Marina Grady White Club: All the lines are loose and Pharmasea, Lyonhearted, Grady Lady and Recess head east on the Calloosahatchee River.
We’d heard that the locks were on a different schedule, opening on the odd hour rather than on demand.
We made the first lock at Ortona shortly before its scheduled opening at 9. Quite an experience locking through, but we all made it with a minimum of fuss.
Cannons Marina: Grady White Boat Club, Bahamas or Bust, Day 1.
Day 1: Saturday, May 2, 2009
The intrepid cruisers of the Sun Coast Grady White Club, Cannons Marina’s Grady White Boat Club, began to gather at marker 33 shortly after nine on a golden spring morning.
Bob and Debbie Lyons aboard Lyonhearted and Terry and Jean Griffin in Recess were joined by Rex and Theresa Nelson aboard Hailey II, which was going as far as Ft. Myers.
The ten o’clock rendezvous at the New Pass Bridge with Mike Seery and John Pock aboard Pharmasea and Al and Cathy Neuman in Grady Lady were on time.
Cannons Marina Grady White Boat Club: The Islands Of The Bahamas or Bust!
Cannons Marina’s Grady White Boat Club; “The Suncoast Grady White Club” left this morning headed southeast to The Islands Of The Bahamas from Longboat Key Florida!
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Florida Writer, Grady White Boats and Cannons Marina?
“The boat was a Grady White twenty-eight foot walk around. It was made for fishing, with a large cockpit and wide gunwales, made so that the fisherman could easily walk around the cabin trunk to the bow if he had a fish on the line. It sported twin 250-horsepower Yamaha outboards that would push it through the water at almost fifty miles per hour. She was my love, and her name was Recess.” – Matt Royal in Blood Island.
2008-2009 Suncoast Grady White Club Events
Suncoast Grady White Club (Cannons Marina’s Grady White Club) Events for 2008 and 2009
1. Circumnavigate Florida, Sarasota to Fort Meyers to Stuart to Miami to Duck Key to Naples to Sarasota
Date: Saturday Nov. 1- Nov. 9, 2008
Trip Organizers:
More Information: Cannons Marina, Grady White Club
Grady White Club Event in Sarasota
TENTATIVE PROPOSED ITINERARY FOR CIRCUMNAVIGATE FLORIDA TRIP
Sat. Nov. 1 – 8 AM North meeting place at Cannons ICW Marker 33
- 8:20 AM South meeting place at Big Pass channel
- Communications on VHF channel 78.
- To City of Ft. Myers Yacht Basin about 85 miles, arrive by noon. See note 1 below
- 1300 Lee St Fort Myers, FL 33901 1 239 334 8271 8am-6pm daily
- Winyah Hotel & Suites, Fort Myers 0.7 miles 2038 W First St 239-332-2048
Sun. Nov. 2 – To Stuart FL 130 miles Subject to waterway being open.
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