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    • Sep 14, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments 26.9291,-82.06339999

      Fishermen’s Village Marina Announces New Dockmaster, Charlotte Harbor, Punta Gorda, FL


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      On beautiful Charlotte Harbor, Fishermen’s Village Marina, A SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET SPONSOR in Punta Gorda, always has so many wonderful events for visiting boaters and SSECN welcomes Capt. Ron Schebil as FVM’s new Dockmaster.

      ron-schebil

      Capt. Ron Schebil

      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

      Contact: Kathy Burnam, Marketing/Event Manager, kathyb@fishville.com 941 575-3007

      FISHERMEN’S VILLAGE ANNOUNCES NEW MARINA HARBORMASTER

      Punta Gorda, FL—Fishermen’s Village recently announced Mr. Ron Schebil as new Marina Harbormaster, replacing now retired Harbormaster, Jim Branch. Mr. Schebil worked as a dock attendant for two years at Fishermen’s Village Marina before assuming the Harbormaster’s duties.

      Mr. Schebil brings more than 50 years of boating experience to his newly assumed position. Some of his accomplishments include:

      • US Coast Guard Licensed Captain
      • 100 Ton Masters License
      • Recipient of awards and trophies sailing in regattas including the prestigious Port Huron to Mackinac Race
      • Cruised all of the Great Lakes, Georgian Bay, North Channel, British Virgin Islands and the Abacos
      • Served 16 years as elected Sheriff of Washtenaw County, Michigan
      • Taught Criminal Justice at Washtenaw County Community College
      • Married to wife Patti

      “I look forward to serving the boaters in the area and keeping Fishermen’s Village Marina known as one of the “must visit” facilities in Southwest Florida”.

      Contact Harbormaster Ron Schebil at the Fishermen’s Village Marina Office at 941 575-3000, marina@fishville.com.

      Click Here To View the Western Florida Cruisers’ Net Marina Directory Listing For Fishermen’s Village

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    • Sep 12, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy 2 Comments 28.7363,-80.7549999

      Question re Anchorage near Haulover Canal, AICW Statute Mile 869


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      Charted depths in this area do not suggest good anchorage. However, if you have found suitable depths, let Jerry and SSECN hear from you. The nearest SSECN recommended anchorage in that area is ten miles south of Haulover Canal at Titusville/Mwx Brewer Bridge.

      Good morning,
      Would anyone know if anchorages are still available in the Haulover Canal, Florida @ Mile 869.5 in the basin just past the bridge southbound?
      Best regards,
      Jerry
      Gerald Gerlitzki
      33’ Pearson with a 4’ 2” draft.
      jerry@gerlitzkidesign.com
      410-546-9685

      Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of Haulover Canal

      Comments from Cruisers (2)

      1. Bill Marett -  September 13, 2016 - 5:57 pm

        Can’t speak to the depth, but when we came through on 9/8/16, it appeared suitable for using the new dock for an alongside tie. Other sources say that there is 10′ at the eastern end of the new dock. We saw several manatee diving in the basin, but did not see any obvious obstructions.

        Bill
        M/Y Travis McGee
        65′ Pacific Mariner

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      2. Noah D. -  September 12, 2016 - 10:39 am

        I think I know the little area you are referring to, Jerry. My most recent pass through here was about 6mo ago. There is a tiny cove near the parking for the boat ramp south of the Allenhurst bascule. You might be risking impacting an underwater obstruction to venture into that area with too much depth. There are old broken-off posts just under the surface and tree stumps and all manner of nasty things. And if you did get in there without incident, areas like these collect anchors faster than most other places on the ICW. Stay at Titusville if you’re looking for a good anchorage: from experience, it is VERY good. That being said, you’ll see a number of boats anchored about 10-15 miles farther north (from the Haulover cut) in the Mosquito Lagoon outside some of the fishing camps. I can’t speak to the holding or the conditions there, but people are doing it, even for long-stays.

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    • Sep 12, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments

      Bahamas Chatter: Bringing back fish from the Bahamas

      Explorer Chartbooks, A SALTY SOUTHEAST CRUISERS’ NET PARTNER, has long been the standard navigational supplement for enjoyable, informative, and safe cruising through the beautiful Bahamian waters and island visits.

      Bahamas Chatter: Bringing back fish from the Bahamas
      Bringing back fish from the Bahamas
      Posted: 11 Sep 2016 05:39 AM PDT
      According to an article published in Sport Fishing magazine http://www.sportfishingmag.com/bahamas-fish-to-florida a new exception goes into place September 13, 2016 in Florida waters, allowing anglers to possess and land filleted dolphin, wahoo and reef fish that were caught in Bahamian waters. Similar allowances for dolphin and wahoo, as well as modifications to existing recreational regulations for reef fish managed as snapper-grouper being brought back from the Bahamas by water, went into effect in Atlantic federal waters in January 2016. These regulations apply to fish being transported by water only and do not apply to fish being transported or shipped by air.

      Skin must remain on the fillet (to aid in identification by law enforcement).
      Anglers must comply with Atlantic federal bag and vessel limits.
      Two fillets count as one fish toward the bag limit.
      Vessels must have valid Bahamian cruising and sport-fishing permits.
      Passengers must possess a valid government passport with current Bahamian stamps and travel dates.
      Travel through state waters must be continuous and gear must remain stowed. Fishing gear that is appropriately stowed means terminal tackle, such as hooks, leaders, sinkers, etc., must be disconnected and stowed separately from the rod and reel.
      Fish landed under these exceptions cannot be sold.
      Bahamian regulations may be different than those in U.S. state and federal waters. Before you return with your catch, make sure you comply with the more restrictive U.S. and Bahamian recreational bag and possession limits. For example, species that are prohibited from harvest in the U.S., such as queen conch, goliath and Nassau grouper, cannot be transported back into U.S. waters by boat. Spiny lobster must be in whole condition and can only be transported into U.S. waters during the recreational season (Aug. 6 through March 31).
      The changes will allow more fishing freedom for Florida’s residents and visitors while creating consistency between state and federal regulations. For Bahamas sport fishing regulations go to http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/wcm/connect/5ed780d9-7c7f-4a02-b8cf-70cbcb01d65c/SportsfishingRegulations.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=5ed780d9-7c7f-4a02-b8cf-70cbcb01d65c

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    • Sep 12, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy 1 Comment

      Seeking Fellow Boater in Marathon. FL

      If you know or have seen Wayne Shosie, please contact SSECN or Laurel Long at the info below.

      Hello, I’m trying to contact Wayne Shosie on MV “Blue Max”. I’ve been told he is in the anchorage at Boot Key Harbor City Marina Marathon, FL.
      Thanks for any assistance you can give.
      Contact info: Laurel Long
      904-472-5546
      laurel382@gmail.com

      Comments from Cruisers (1)

      1. Capt rick -  August 7, 2019 - 1:05 pm

        If you are looking for jarhead Wayne he is on the hard at Marathon ship yard my #7154989535

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    • Sep 11, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy 3 Comments 34.2503,-77.78199999

      Grounding at Mason Inlet/AICW Intersection, Statute Mile 280


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      This intersection was dredged in early 2016 (/154951) and a Nav Alert (/158529) was posted in July re shoaling here. But, as Mark and Leslie Fields report, Hermine may have further altered the channel. Thank you Mark for this warning!

      Hi, just a note to help those who are starting south. We are traveling southbound (I know, we’re early!) on SV Valkyrie, a Cal 34 with a 5′ draft. On Thursday, Sept. 8, we ran hard aground in what should have been the middle of the ICW channel where it intersects Mason Inlet (south of the Figure 8 Island Bridge at Marker 121). There is apparently severe shoaling from the recent storm. We were unable to get loose without calling for assistance. TowBoat US had to work hard to get us off the sand shoal, but we were able to continue our journey.
      Boaters passing through that area should be aware that they must hug the private docks adjacent to the inlet intersection and give the green marks plenty of room to port when headed south.
      We took the other inlet intersections slowly and cautiously and didn’t have more problems through that stretch (currently just south of Southport NC).
      Regards,
      Mark and Leslie Fields
      SV Valkyrie, Southbound ICW

      Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of Mason Inlet

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      Comments from Cruisers (3)

      1. Tracy Hellman -  September 11, 2016 - 6:43 pm

        This is not new. That entire stretch through there is bad at low tide. I saw it when I went through and back in June/July.

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      2. K. Patrick McCarthy -  September 11, 2016 - 5:18 pm

        After 16 years of travelling the ICW in both directions forward looking sonar, aka scanning sonar, is something I recommend for the whole of the ICW, one of the World’s Wonders, sadly abused and neglected.

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      3. Tom Hale -  September 11, 2016 - 7:53 am

        Thank you for the report. It would be very helpful to have a date,time and tide height. This is a known trouble spot.

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    • Sep 8, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments 33.742,-78.86649999

      Severe Shoaling, AICW Statute Mile 360.5, 9/8/2016


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      This area of shoaling is at the northern end of an already narrow channel between the NC/SC state line and Socastee Bridge. This shoaling will be a problem for deep draft vessels. Mid to high tide is recommended.

      SOUTH CAROLINA – MYRTLE GROVE SOUND AND CAPE FEAR RIVER TO CASINO CREEK – LITTLE RIVER-WINYAH BAY: Severe Shoal and Temporary Buoy 22A Established.
      Severe shoaling has been reported in the vicinity of Little River-Winyah Bay Daybeacon 22A (LLNR 33710.5 [33°44.5204N / 078°51.9515W, 33.742006 / -78.865859]) and Daybeacon 25 (LLNR 33735 [33°43.9158N / 078°53.2605W, 33.731930 / -78.887675]). A temporary Buoy 22A has been set in approximate position 33-44.5094N/078-51.9702W (33°44.5094N / 078°51.9702W, 33.741823 / -78.866170) . Little River-Winyah Bay Daybeacon 22A has been temporarily changed from a non-lateral aid to an NW on pile (diamond shape, white day boards with an orange reflective boarder). The approximate width of the channel from the pier on the east side to TEMP Buoy 22A on the west side is roughly 60ft. The pier on the east side is not lit and the width of the channel with the extreme shoaling on the west side poses a serious hazard to navigation. Mariners are advised to use extreme caution while transiting the area. Chart 11502, 11504 LNM 36/16

      Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To A “Navigation Alert” Position at Mile 360.5

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    • Sep 8, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments

      In Need of a Givens Life Raft Manual

      We all know what it’s like trying to solve issues without a manual for an older, but perfectly usable, piece of equipment. If you can suggest a source for this particular life raft manual, please let us hear from you. Larry and SSECN will sincerely appreciate your help.

      Good morning,
      I am wondering if you could help me locate a manual for my life raft. I have a Givens 6 man life raft that is 9 years old and I need an owners manual. I am wondering if you or any of your readers might have one where I could get a copy of it?
      Larry Fansler

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    • Sep 7, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments

      Yacht Stranded on Beach at Palm Beach Inlet

      Definitely not a good day!! He should have drunk plain old Sweet Tea!

      Boater admits to drinking Long Island Ice Teas before stranding 72-foot yacht on Palm Beach
      WPTV Webteam
      8:56 AM, Sep 7, 2016
      1 min ago

      Man admitted to drinking Long Island Ice Teas

      PALM BEACH, Fla. – A boater, who said he had been drinking Long Island Ice Teas before the incident, was arrested Wednesday morning after an 80-foot yacht washed ashore on Palm Beach.

      Thomas Henry Baker, 63, Belle Isle, Fla., a suburb of Orlando, told police he “failed to navigate his vessel into the Palm Beach Inlet and ran the vessel into the beach.”

      The 72-foot yacht named “Time Out” was spotted floating at the shoreline right next to the Palm Beach Inlet.

      CLICK HERE for the full report from WPTV.COM

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    • Sep 3, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments 36.6377,-76.37299999

      Douglas Road Landing, Dismal Swamp Canal, Alternate Route Statute Mile 18.5


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      Douglas Road Landing is on the east side of the Canal, south of Deep Creek Lock. Its new dock and facilities would make a convenient emergency stopover in a storm or other temporary situation. Our thanks to Bill Spaur for this notice and photo.

      The drinking fountain and restrooms at Douglas Road Landing, Dismal Swamp Canal, are open. The Landing is between Army Corps of Engineers Statute mile markers 18 and 19.
      Bill Spaur

      douglasroadlanding

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    • Sep 3, 2016by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments

      Log of the Ideath, Surviving Hermine, Captain Randy Mims, September 3, 2016

      You only have to spend a short time talking with Randy Mims to know that he has the soul of a true sailor. Randy not only built his 27ft gaff-rigged cutter, Ideath, but each year he single-hands the cutter from North Carolina to the Northern Gulf Coast and back again. “Ideath” is pronounced Idea-th and loosely translates as “house of ideas”. Randy stops along the way to visit maritime museums and, indulging his passion for music, he volunteers to sing in church choirs along the way. He also takes time to share his travels with his friends and has agreed to allow Cruisers Net to post his emails. For more photos and more on Randy, go to http://towndock.net/shippingnews/ideath?pg=1 from TownDock.net in Oriental. See previous installment: /156986.

      Randy Mims

      Randy Mims

      soul of a true sailor and, as you will read in the log below, he is the very essence of the DYI! Randy not only built his 27ft gaff-rigged cutter, Ideath, but each year he single-hands the cutter from North Carolina to the Northern Gulf Coast and back again. “Ideath” is pronounced Idea-th and loosely translates as “house of ideas”. Randy stops along the way to visit maritime museums and, indulging his passion for music, he volunteers to sing and play in church choirs along the way. He also takes time to share his travels with his friends and has agreed to allow SSECN to post his emails. For more photos and more on Randy, go to http://towndock.net/shippingnews/ideath?pg=1 from TownDock.net in Oriental, NC. See previous installment: /157772.


      Dear Friends,
      Let me begin by apologizing to everyone that does not follow me on Facebook or Youtube for not sending a text update when I arrived back in Apalachicola. I posted a video about the nice sail from St. Pete to Apalach but forgot to tell everyone that I had made it. OOPS! Since I arrived, I have been playing a lot of music. In addition to practicing four instruments for half an hour each almost every day, I have played at the Apalachicola Farmer’s Market and various Open Mics. Of course I have resumed doing a Prelude for the church service every other Sunday and play flute along with the organ on the Processional and Recessional. I hope everyone had a great summer. It seems strange that just when you get the faintest hint that fall is actually going to get here that Hurricane season get’s the most active. Back is 2002 I went across the creek from the dock at low tide and cut a hole in the marsh grass. On what I remember as probably the hottest day there ever was, I dug a three foot deep hole that measured three feet by two feet. Out each end of this hole I dug a trench two feet deep that was about a foot wide and eight feet long. Into this trench a went a “landscape timber”. Around this timber I fastened a length of five-eights inch chain. Into the big hole (which of course was beginning to fill with the tide coming back in) I mixed eight ninety pound bags of concrete mix. This produced about a six hundred pound anchor with which to hold the boat out in the creek and off the dock when the storm surge actually gets higher than the dock. When I got back this time I noticed that the buoy that marked the end of the chain was missing. Investigating I found that over the years the massive chain had melted into something that wouldn’t hold a rowboat in place. It took weeks for there to be a low tide that wasn’t in the middle of the night. Thankfully last week the tide was right at about seven thirty one evening. With shovel and post hole digger and a piece of 3/4 inch nylon anchor line that I had prepared with a loop spliced in one end and a thimble spliced into the other I paddled across the creek not looking forward to what I had to do. Actually I had my doubts if it would even be possible. But with a positive attitude and only about an hour and a half till dark, I dug a hole on the side of the block away from the creek and a smaller hole down beside the block on the creek side and lying face down in the mud I began trying to push a drain cleaning snake through the mud under the anchor from one hole to the other. I lost track of how many tries it took but with the light failing I hit the other hole. Hallaluja!! I had my anchor back. This proved to be a very good thing. Depression Nine about which the weather service didn’t seem to have a clue did indeed become a hurricane though thankfully not a powerful one and came right to Apalachicola. I spent last night with IDEATH tied to the dock and fore and aft to the anchor across the creek and with an anchor down the creek. Every hour (until the barometer started going back up) and then every two hours I went out into the thirty to fifty mile an hour wind and the DRIVING rain and checked and adjusted lines and was thankful that the storm wasn’t worse. I love living on the boat. It is not always Fun and Relaxing, but NOTHING is more beautiful than the sunrise after a storm. The air is completely clean and the world is peaceful and new.
      Peace and Love to you All,
      Randy

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