Jun 17, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments 29.9172,-81.30789999
A Record Breaking Weekend at Camachee Cove Yacht Harbor, AICW MM 775.5

View In Chartview

Camachee Cove Yacht Harbor, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, is located just off the Waterway’s western shoreline, south of unlighted daybeacon #7 and north of the Vilano Beach Bridge.
It was a historic weekend at the 2023 Old School Kingfish Shootout! Several records were broken, including boat entries at 654! First place angler William Crabtree aboard the Yellowfin 39 Offshore “Time Machine” also weighed a new tournament record 46.83-lb. kingfish! Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all involved! #LiveDeeper

Click Here To View the Eastern Florida Cruiser Net Marina Directory Listing For Camachee Cove Yacht Harbor
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window, Zoomed To the Location of Camachee Cove Yacht Harbor
Share:
Be the first to comment!
Jun 14, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments
Bahamas Customs Declaration Going Digital on June 12

Our thanks to Makers Air and Staniel Cay Yacht Club, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, for posting this news.

Greetings from Makers Air!
Effective Monday June 12th, Bahamas Customs will require digital submission of their forms for residents and tourists through an app called Exempt.
Everyone traveling to The Bahamas is required to fill out a Bahamas Customs C17 Declaration Form. Whether a returning resident or a visitor on vacation, Exempt is designed for you to complete your form electronically before you land in order to save time. All passengers will use the Exempt app to submit your C17 form to Bahamas Customs.
After signing up and submitting your appropriate travel documents, you will be issued a QR code and confirmation number. Upon arrival into Customs, the Officer will review your electronic submission and process your form.
In most of our Out Island ports of entry, your Exempt confirmation code will be given to the officer on duty as your proof of submission.
Paper immigration forms are still required at this time and will be provided to you at check in.
Download the app and set up your profile today to make your Bahamas entry experience a breeze!
in bio for additional information!
@stanielcay @ascendviamakersair
Share:
Be the first to comment!
Jun 13, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments
Fishermen’s Village July Calendars of Entertainment/Events, Punta Gorda, FL
There is always plenty to do around Charlotte Harbor! While berthed at Fishermen’s Village Marina, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, you are certain to enjoy visiting Western Florida’s beautiful Charlotte Harbor/Peace River.
Fishermen’s Village July Calendars of Entertainment/Events
Click here for Independence Day Celebration Press Release 2023
Click here for Sunset Beach Club Calendar July 2023
Kathy Burnam
Special Events & Community Relations
941.639.8721
kburnam@fishermensvillage.com
www.fishermensvillage.com
Click Here To View the Western Florida Cruisers Net Marina Directory Listing For Fishermen’s Village
Click Here To Open A Chart View Window Zoomed To the Location of Fishermen’s Village
Share:
Be the first to comment!
Jun 12, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments
Shared Photo: Egret Launch – Camachee Cove Yacht Harbor
Share:
Be the first to comment!
Jun 6, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments
USCG Aircrew Rescue off Georgia Coast
The Coast Guard doing what they do so well. Our thanks to Ted Arisaka for this report.
Share:
Be the first to comment!
Jun 2, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments
LNM: USACE: Notice to Navigation: 2023-04 Okeechobee Waterway and Canaveral Harbor Lock Operations during Tropical Storms
Click here for Notice to Navigation: 2023-04 Okeechobee Waterway and Canaveral Harbor Lock Operations during Tropical Storms
Share:
Be the first to comment!

Jun 1, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments

LNM: Coast Guard urges preparedness for 2023 hurricane season

News Release

U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Heartland
Contact: 8th District Public Affairs
Office: 504-671-2020
After Hours: 618-225-9008
Eighth District online newsroom

Coast Guard urges preparedness for 2023 hurricane season

06/01/2023 01:26 PM EDT

Coast Guard urges preparedness for 2023 hurricane season
2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook

Port conditions change based on weather forecasts, and current port conditions can be viewed on the following Coast Guard homeport webpages:

For more information follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Be the first to comment!

Jun 1, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments
NHC Tropical Storm and Hurricane Charts are Back

As in past hurricane seasons, our Homepage will keep the National Hurricane Center storm chart active with automatically updated storm positions and updates. Simply open NHC: Tropical Storm Charts and Updates on our Homepage for the latest developments of current disturbances and NHC projections.
Share:
Be the first to comment!

May 29, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments

Honoring Memorial Day: Unveiling its Forgotten History – Key Lime Sailing Club, Key Largo, FL

Key Lime Sailing Club in Key Largo, 305-451-3438, www.keylimesailingclub.com

Key Lime Sailing Club, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, always has very special offers for their visitors! Key Lime Sailing Club is a unique slice of KEYS ENJOYMENT…give it a try and let us hear about your experience.

Today, as we gather to commemorate Memorial Day, let us take a moment to delve into the untold origins and evolution of this cherished holiday. In a captivating article by Richard Gardiner, we embark on a journey through the forgotten history that shaped Memorial Day into the symbol of unity and remembrance it is today. From acts of generosity and reconciliation after the Civil War to its profound significance as a day of honoring sacrifices, this article, originally published on The Conversation, sheds light on the remarkable story behind Memorial Day. Join us in reflecting on the profound meaning behind this commemorative day and gain a deeper appreciation for the sacrifices of those who have served our nation.

The Forgotten History of Memorial Day

Memorial Day was born out of generous gestures after the Civil War: Southerners decorated graves of Confederate soldiers as well as those of former Union enemies.

Preparing to decorate graves, May 1899. Library of Congress

In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country.

The holiday was Memorial Day, an annual commemoration was born in the former Confederate States in 1866 and adopted by the United States in 1868. It is a holiday in which the nation honors its military dead.

Gen. John A. Logan, who headed the largest Union veterans’ fraternity at that time, the Grand Army of the Republic, is usually credited as being the originator of the holiday.

Yet when General Logan established the holiday, he acknowledged its genesis among the Union’s former enemies, saying, “It was not too late for the Union men of the nation to follow the example of the people of the South.”

I’m a scholar who has written – with co-author Daniel Bellware – a history of Memorial Day. Cities and towns across America have for more than a century claimed to be the holiday’s birthplace, but we have sifted through the myths and half-truths and uncovered the authentic story of how this holiday came into being.

Generous acts bore fruit

During 1866, the first year of this annual observance in the South, a feature of the holiday emerged that made awareness, admiration and eventually imitation of it spread quickly to the North.

During the inaugural Memorial Day observances which were conceived in Columbus, Georgia, many Southern participants – especially women – decorated graves of Confederate soldiers as well as, unexpectedly, those of their former enemies who fought for the Union.

Civil War Union Gen. John A. Logan. Library of Congress Glass negatives

Shortly after those first Memorial Day observances all across the South, newspaper coverage in the North was highly favorable to the ex-Confederates.

“The action of the ladies on this occasion, in burying whatever animosities or ill-feeling may have been engendered in the late war towards those who fought against them, is worthy of all praise and commendation,” wrote one paper.

On May 9, 1866, the Cleveland Daily Leader lauded the Southern women during their first Memorial Day.

“The act was as beautiful as it was unselfish, and will be appreciated in the North.”

The New York Commercial Advertiser, recognizing the magnanimous deeds of the women of Columbus, Georgia, echoed the sentiment. “Let this incident, touching and beautiful as it is, impart to our Washington authorities a lesson in conciliation.”

Power of a poem

To be sure, this sentiment was not unanimous. There were many in both parts of the U.S. who had no interest in conciliation.

But as a result of one of these news reports, Francis Miles Finch, a Northern judge, academic and poet, wrote a poem titled “The Blue and the Gray.” Finch’s poem quickly became part of the American literary canon. He explained what inspired him to write it:

“It struck me that the South was holding out a friendly hand, and that it was our duty, not only as conquerors, but as men and their fellow citizens of the nation, to grasp it.”

Finch’s poem seemed to extend a full pardon to the South: “They banish our anger forever when they laurel the graves of our dead” was one of the lines.

Not just poems: Sheet music written to commemorate Memorial Day in 1870. Library of Congress

Almost immediately, the poem circulated across America in books, magazines and newspapers. By the end of the 19th century, school children everywhere were required to memorize Finch’s poem. The ubiquitous publication of Finch’s rhyme meant that by the end of 1867, the southern Memorial Day holiday was a familiar phenomenon throughout the entire, and recently reunited, country.

General Logan was aware of the forgiving sentiments of people like Finch. When Logan’s order establishing Memorial Day was published in various newspapers in May 1868, Finch’s poem was sometimes appended to the order.

‘The blue and the grey’

It was not long before Northerners decided that they would not only adopt the Southern custom of Memorial Day, but also the Southern custom of “burying the hatchet.” A group of Union veterans explained their intentions in a letter to the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph on May 28, 1869:

“Wishing to bury forever the harsh feelings engendered by the war, Post 19 has decided not to pass by the graves of the Confederates sleeping in our lines, but divide each year between the blue and the grey the first floral offerings of a common country. We have no powerless foes. Post 19 thinks of the Southern dead only as brave men.”

Other reports of reciprocal magnanimity circulated in the North, including the gesture of a 10-year-old who made a wreath of flowers and sent it to the overseer of the holiday, Colonel Leaming, in Lafayette, Indiana, with the following note attached, published in The New Hampshire Patriot on July 15, 1868:

“Will you please put this wreath upon some rebel soldier’s grave? My dear papa is buried at Andersonville, (Georgia) and perhaps some little girl will be kind enough to put a few flowers upon his grave.”

President Abraham Lincoln’s wish that there be “malice toward none” and “charity for all” was visible in the magnanimous actions of participants on both sides, who extended an olive branch during the Memorial Day observances in those first three years.

Although not known by many today, the early evolution of the Memorial Day holiday was a manifestation of Lincoln’s hope for reconciliation between North and South.

Richard Gardiner is an associate professor of History Education at Columbus State University.

Key Lime Sailing Club and Cottages | 305-451-3438 | 99306 Overseas Highway, Key Largo Florida | www.keylimesailingclub.com

Key Lime Sailing Club and Cottages | 99306 Overseas Highway, Key Largo, FL 33037

Be the first to comment!

May 27, 2023by: Larry Dorminy No Comments 36.72,-76.23939999

Rock The Park with Buckshot & Celeste Kellogg, June 15, Chesapeake City, VA

View In Chartview

Cruisers Net is pleased to be partnering with GoChesapeake to welcome cruisers voyaging south or north via the Waterway through Virginia. Atlantic Yacht Basin is A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR!

Proceeds benefit the GoChesapeake Initiative which is a program of Virginia Water Tourism Corp–a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. GoChesapeake works to support the City in promoting Chesapeake as a waterway destination for the 10,000+ yachts / boats that cruise through our city each year.

ROCK THE PARK

PRESENTED BY SOUTHERN BANK
Featuring Buckshot with Celeste Kellogg
Thursday, June 15th | Chesapeake City Park
Gates Open @ 5PM | Concert Starts @ 6PM

Rock The Park is a rockin’ outdoor fundraiser concert featuring Buckshot with Celeste Kellogg, food trucks, beer from Big Ugly Brewery and wine and orange crushes from Lockside Bar & Grill.

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:

Southern Bank

Lockside Bar & Grill

Pretty Ugly Distribution

Sheriff Jim O’Sullivan

Ryan Homes

James Hardie Building Products

Kotarides Builders, Developers & Property Managers

Damuth Trane

City of Chesapeake

Big Woody’s Bar & Grill

Heartland Construction

Thurs, June

ADMISSION

Kids 12 & Under: Free

$30 by May 31st

$35 starting June 1st

FREE PARKING

For full details, visit RockChesapeake.com

Proceeds benefit the GoChesapeake Initiative which is a program of Virginia Water Tourism Corp–a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

GoChesapeake works to support the City in promoting Chesapeake as a waterway destination for the 10,000+ yachts / boats that cruise through our city each year.

The program helps generate tourism revenue which provides additional funding for schools, libraries, public safety, and transportation projects while also creating quality job opportunities for our citizens.

It also funds the Blue Heron Waterway Gallery – the only known waterway art gallery in the US.