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

“The closer you get to the top, the nearer you are to the bottom,” said a wise man once. I used to think that it was double speak until I started doing the 'Boating Show on TV'. It aired on the Florida Sunshine channel and almost made it onto the Speed channel. I went to the Atlantic City Boat Show to promote my product, Super Shipbottom Antifouling Bottom Paint and the television show. Someone from the Trump Atlantic City Marina and Casino offered free room and lodging in exchange for promos on our show. Very nice room, a stack of chips, fruit basket and a limo to take us to the Convention center and back each day. I even had an escort in the resort. It took a couple of days for the advertising department to figure out I was very small potatoes. The limo was first to go and then the in house escort and finally the complimentary room service but by then I was checking out. For a day and a half I was quite near the top but I knew I was riding a shrinking wave so I pl

Taken from the Lockheed "Star", 1943: The following was written by Tech. Sgt. Robert H. Bryson, Radio Operator-Gunner, while on an unescorted mission in a B-17 Flying Fortress over North Africa. Oh, Hedy Lamarr is a beautiful gal, And Madeleine Carrol is too. But you'll find, if you query, a different theory amoungst any bomber crew. For the loveliest thing of which one could sing this side of the Heavenly Gates, is no blonde or brunette of the Hollywood set,                                                  but an escort of P-38s. Yes, in days that have passed, when the tables were massed With glasses of scotch or champagne, It's quite true that the sight was a thing to delight us, Intent upon feeling no pain. But no longer the same, nowadays, in this game, When we head north from Messlina Straights, Take the sparkling wine--every time just make this mine An escort of P-38s. Byron, Shelley, and Keats ran a dozen dead heats Describing the view from the