Boating is...by boatguy Ed Fort Myers Beach is a satirical site!

In case you hadn't noticed this is Hurricane season. You'd have to be a troll living under a bridge not to have noticed. Not enough has been said about boats and 'canes so here we go! Everything associated with a hurricane is bad for boats. Extreme high and low water, 150 mile an hour wind and tornadoes are all bad for everyone but especially boats. That said; lets see what a boat owner can do to prevent the loss of his boat. Between 1970 and 2003 our pleasant beach community experienced several 'blows' that had everyone talking about the 'No-Name Storm' or tropical storm Keith, which was really a minimal hurricane but who's to argue. Popular precautions of that era for hurricanes consisted of pulling your boat out of the water on a trailer or forklift or travel lift and getting her out of harms way. Or running the larger vessels up the river to a sheltered oxbow preferably east of Franklin Lock. The canal system was also a popular...

Boating & Womans boatguy Ed            These few statistics are hard to ignore if you are a boating guy. First, 75% of the choice about which boat to buy is made by the women of the family! Second, 90% of the choice to get out of boating is made by women! Let me explain, you see the first statistic deals with the final choice between several models or boats. The female partner in the deal usually has the final choice in the brand, color scheme and equipment. That is a lot of power to have but it’s okay with me!            The second statistic has to do with the reason that families get out of boating. “If Mama ain’t happy, nobodies happy,” my gray haired daddy used to say! Getting woman on the water isn’t a chore because they usually like boats but they don’t like to be uncomfortable unless they are sailors! We should plan our outings with that fact firmly planted in our...

The Dead End Canal Yacht Club is vacant. The whole beach is vacant and several of our happy hour hangouts have closed. The Naughty Turtle is gone for obvious reason having nothing to do with seasonal down turns and a lot to do with lousy mgmt and ownership. Maria's Cajun place is a victim of a bad location.  The Split Rail closed because the Greeks that took the 1/2 and 1/2 off the table at breakfast. It was ten or fifteen years ago but that was the beginning of the end. I never went back and my $60 to $70 a week loss doomed it for a lousy few nickles. Oh the arrogance of the newest owner.

This is why we go a little further out and then wait twenty minutes after the fireworks show to start going around Bowditch Point which is getting extremely narrow again. Even then some idiot came around seven or eight of us at high speed just passed the no-wake sign. Why this tragedy hasn't happened on Fort Myers Beach, I can't tell but it surely will someday. When you mix ignorance of the rules of the road, alcohol and partying, caution goes way away! Multiple Boating Deaths Now Homicide Invesigation Video. When it asks for log in wait a few seconds then close request.

Investigators seek help in investigation of deadly crash!  If asked to join just click close.

Video from ABC Local 10 Miami Hey, lets go watch the fireworks off Miami Beach.... It's over full throttle home! BAM

Last night was a wonderful night for viewing Fort Myers Beach fireworks. We (Dead End Canal Yacht Club  members) went with the Rverend on his 25 foot Tri-toon offshore to watch them. What a boat! Plenty of room for a big party and stable and fast. We were on station about 8 pm and drinking beer while we waited for the 9ish start. There were more large vessels around including the Getaway and several larger private yachts. We thought we had buoy room but were forced out by crowding boats so we went offshore a couple miles to excape the jostling. We were no more that 3 miles from the explosions and that was close for most of us. The party went on until the last boom and flash went off. Since we had our designated driver who would drop us off at our docks, we weren't in any hurry to rush around Bowdich point. we waited a full half hour and then headed in. We saw a dozen cop boats (or so it seemed) on our trip back to thhe canal but they didn't slow down the idiots. All in al i...

Boating Blunders Video! Funny but let this be a lesson!

This is the way to float Video

Lately, the Super bowl has been snoozers, the world series is still boring baseball and forget about the NBA because the only interesting thing that has happened is the racist(?) remark from Donald Sterling. Chris Rock on the BET awards show drilled the joke about it, “I don't want my woman around black professional basketball players either!” The real excitement is over Team USA 'Futboll' team. Soccer is hot but boring and then extremely exciting. Who plays 95 minutes for a tie or a one nothing win? It's the most popular sport in the world and it is becoming noticed by a large portion of North Americanos who will be glued to a large screen TV at 4pm this afternoon. Cleveland Jack will be with a smattering of other Dead End Canal Yacht Club at the Big Game Waterfront Grill and he is fond of saying that this is the only sport that can be totally decided by the Ref. I've had my share of yellow cards (penalty warning) but I've never had a red card (ejectio...