Last year we took kimosabi to Florida on November 4th and brought her home March 10th. We came home for the Holidays and went back January 27th. We launched the boat approximately 24 miles east of Fort Myers, up the Caloosahatchee River at Belle Hatchee Marina in LaBelle. We chose Belle Hatchee because we could launch in fresh water and store our truck and trailer on a weekly/monthly basis while we where cruising and we could also haul and store the boat when we wanted to come home. We cruised back to Belle Hatchee mid-December to haul the boat out and leave it stored there mast up, ready to launch when we returned. Belle Hatchee, the land of Broken dreams...
This photo is of the Admiral and kimosabi in Smokehouse Bay, Marco Island in November. We had to fumeagate the boat because we had a red ant attack. Apparently about 10 milion ants came aboard during our short time in LaBelle before we launched...... So we spent a few hours cruising around while the bug bomb did its thing.
In February we met up with Fellow Fboat friends from Wisconsin. Here we all are rafted off (again in Smokehouse Bay, Marco Island) on our way to Marathon. Two boats are F-31s and the larger one is an F-39 (not what you would call trailerable - actually, it is, but in pieces on more than on trailer).
From Marco we headed south, stopping at Shark River. Here we did a dinghy cruise up the river...
Later, we found our dream boat in Key Largo...
More later, I'm sure...
