Jan. 21. The First Messabout of 2012
The First FGCTSCA Messabout for 2012 went well. for the most part.
Close to 40 people showed up at the Bradenton, Fl, 59th Street Boat Ramp on the Manatee River Sat. Jan. 21. They brought a wide variety of boats with them. Others without boats were welcomed to kayak or sail too.
Dave Lucas’s order for the best possible day was fulfilled. The blue skies with a temperature rising to the 70s and a light to moderate breeze set up a great sailing day.
Carol Van Vleet brought a kayak that had pedals which drew a lot of interest. Several people had their first kayak experiences on it. Carol said that Larry Page was so impressed he planned to make one for himself. Apparently you can buy the pedal mechanism separately.
Dave brought Laylah, not his granddaughter but his Cortez Melonseed. Dave demonstrated one advantage of the wide decked melonseed. Capt. Raymond Jack had the unfortunate experience of emphasizing the melonseed’s advantage by capsizing .the 8 foot dinghy Dilly Boat. Paul Thomas had sailed it earlier and called the boat a . . . (challenging) boat to sail. Capt. Ray spent quite a bit of time in the water before help got to him, but he said the water wasn’t bad at all. (It was supposed to be in the middle 60s.)
Mike Jones came down from St Petersburg with his prize winning black painted skiff that many people found hard to believe was made out of wood.
Stan Terryll, FGCTSCA Vice President, brought two boats, His Yeehaw, a Cortez Melonseed, and a Nancy’s China, a well known Sam Devlin design, a 15 foot sailboat with cockpit.
Paul Thomas brought his Atkins designed 13ft sailing skiff, Lois, a very stable and relatively easy sailing boat. Just the boat for others to start out on.
Frank Smart brought his experimental trimaran, Test Bed One, which demonstrated that you do not need much breeze to cruise right along.
Chuck Kekoni, a Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez volunteer who travels from Alaska after his salmon fishing job is done for the winter, had, hard to believe, his first sailboat rides and now is considering building his own.
There were more boats and more people. Some photos are attached and more may be put up on the website.
The bring-a -dish-to-pass lunch continued to live up to its reputation with tasty delicacies loading down a picknic table including several salads, vegetable and pasta, stone crab claws, lots of other dishes including deserts. Even if you do not sail or otherwise boat, the lunch is reason enough to come to the messabout.
Here is the rest of the story. Wally Mills broke his ankle. As Dave Lucas reports, His foot got stuck in a hole at the messabout. He fell, twisted his ankle and broke it in three places. The Ambulance arrived and two young ladies brought the stretcher to Wally. Soon after that the fire truck arrived with a crew that lifted Wally into the ambulance. Here is Wally’s email address if you’d like to send an e-card: millswfmcam@wmconnect.com Wally’s mailing address is Wallace F. Mills, 9106 34th Ave. E, Palmetto, Fl 34221
Keep checking the website: http://fgctsca.weebly.com/ For future activities.
We’re working on plans for another messabout on the waters close to the Cortez Kitchen. Keep checking the website.
Put these other occasions on your calendars: The 30th Annual Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival is on Feb. 18 & 19 - 2012 This event needs lots of volunteers to continue to be a success. The move to the East side of Cortez using part of the Cortez Maritime Museum property and part of the Taylor Boat Works property worked very well last year and plans are well underway for this year..
At the Festival for just $5, some lucky sailor will win a 22 foot Catalina sailboat complete with outboard motor and sails when it will be raffled off. The winning ticket will be drawn at the end of the Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival on February 19, 2012. Inspect the boat parked by the Florida Maritime Museum at 4415 - 119th Street West, Cortez, 34215. The proceeds will go to the Museum’s Award Winning Boat Works program’s volunteers to build a traditional wooden Florida Skipjack. The Skipjack will be used in various programs including The Turner Maritime Challenge at Cortez, the Museum’s program for youth: So your $5. bill will help keep seniors and youth busy and off the streets.and out of trouble.
Contact Ted Adams at the Museum or Phone: (941) 708-6120 or email: ted.adams@manateeclerk.com or come to the Museum
Another event is our 7th Annual Florida Gulf Coast Small Craft Festival at the Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez which is fast approaching (April 20 - 22). Volunteers will be needed to make this festival a success too. If you can help for any amount of time, your help will be welcome.
If you are not a memberof the Florida Gulf Coast Traditional Small Craft Association, it is easy enough to join. See the information on our website.
The Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez, a cooperative historical project between the Florida Institute for Salt Water Heritage and Manatee County Clerk of the Circuit Court, R. B. "Chips" Shore's Historical Resources Department, is located at: 4415 119th St. West, Cortez, Florida and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 8:30 AM to 4:00 p.m.
The Museum’s Boat Shop is at 4523 123rd St Ct. W., Cortez, FL, 34215. Volunteers are at work Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays from 9:00 to 3:00..
Both welcome volunteers of various skill levels, donations and other meaningful contributions.
Here are a few more photos:
Close to 40 people showed up at the Bradenton, Fl, 59th Street Boat Ramp on the Manatee River Sat. Jan. 21. They brought a wide variety of boats with them. Others without boats were welcomed to kayak or sail too.
Dave Lucas’s order for the best possible day was fulfilled. The blue skies with a temperature rising to the 70s and a light to moderate breeze set up a great sailing day.
Carol Van Vleet brought a kayak that had pedals which drew a lot of interest. Several people had their first kayak experiences on it. Carol said that Larry Page was so impressed he planned to make one for himself. Apparently you can buy the pedal mechanism separately.
Dave brought Laylah, not his granddaughter but his Cortez Melonseed. Dave demonstrated one advantage of the wide decked melonseed. Capt. Raymond Jack had the unfortunate experience of emphasizing the melonseed’s advantage by capsizing .the 8 foot dinghy Dilly Boat. Paul Thomas had sailed it earlier and called the boat a . . . (challenging) boat to sail. Capt. Ray spent quite a bit of time in the water before help got to him, but he said the water wasn’t bad at all. (It was supposed to be in the middle 60s.)
Mike Jones came down from St Petersburg with his prize winning black painted skiff that many people found hard to believe was made out of wood.
Stan Terryll, FGCTSCA Vice President, brought two boats, His Yeehaw, a Cortez Melonseed, and a Nancy’s China, a well known Sam Devlin design, a 15 foot sailboat with cockpit.
Paul Thomas brought his Atkins designed 13ft sailing skiff, Lois, a very stable and relatively easy sailing boat. Just the boat for others to start out on.
Frank Smart brought his experimental trimaran, Test Bed One, which demonstrated that you do not need much breeze to cruise right along.
Chuck Kekoni, a Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez volunteer who travels from Alaska after his salmon fishing job is done for the winter, had, hard to believe, his first sailboat rides and now is considering building his own.
There were more boats and more people. Some photos are attached and more may be put up on the website.
The bring-a -dish-to-pass lunch continued to live up to its reputation with tasty delicacies loading down a picknic table including several salads, vegetable and pasta, stone crab claws, lots of other dishes including deserts. Even if you do not sail or otherwise boat, the lunch is reason enough to come to the messabout.
Here is the rest of the story. Wally Mills broke his ankle. As Dave Lucas reports, His foot got stuck in a hole at the messabout. He fell, twisted his ankle and broke it in three places. The Ambulance arrived and two young ladies brought the stretcher to Wally. Soon after that the fire truck arrived with a crew that lifted Wally into the ambulance. Here is Wally’s email address if you’d like to send an e-card: millswfmcam@wmconnect.com Wally’s mailing address is Wallace F. Mills, 9106 34th Ave. E, Palmetto, Fl 34221
Keep checking the website: http://fgctsca.weebly.com/ For future activities.
We’re working on plans for another messabout on the waters close to the Cortez Kitchen. Keep checking the website.
Put these other occasions on your calendars: The 30th Annual Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival is on Feb. 18 & 19 - 2012 This event needs lots of volunteers to continue to be a success. The move to the East side of Cortez using part of the Cortez Maritime Museum property and part of the Taylor Boat Works property worked very well last year and plans are well underway for this year..
At the Festival for just $5, some lucky sailor will win a 22 foot Catalina sailboat complete with outboard motor and sails when it will be raffled off. The winning ticket will be drawn at the end of the Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival on February 19, 2012. Inspect the boat parked by the Florida Maritime Museum at 4415 - 119th Street West, Cortez, 34215. The proceeds will go to the Museum’s Award Winning Boat Works program’s volunteers to build a traditional wooden Florida Skipjack. The Skipjack will be used in various programs including The Turner Maritime Challenge at Cortez, the Museum’s program for youth: So your $5. bill will help keep seniors and youth busy and off the streets.and out of trouble.
Contact Ted Adams at the Museum or Phone: (941) 708-6120 or email: ted.adams@manateeclerk.com or come to the Museum
Another event is our 7th Annual Florida Gulf Coast Small Craft Festival at the Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez which is fast approaching (April 20 - 22). Volunteers will be needed to make this festival a success too. If you can help for any amount of time, your help will be welcome.
If you are not a memberof the Florida Gulf Coast Traditional Small Craft Association, it is easy enough to join. See the information on our website.
The Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez, a cooperative historical project between the Florida Institute for Salt Water Heritage and Manatee County Clerk of the Circuit Court, R. B. "Chips" Shore's Historical Resources Department, is located at: 4415 119th St. West, Cortez, Florida and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 8:30 AM to 4:00 p.m.
The Museum’s Boat Shop is at 4523 123rd St Ct. W., Cortez, FL, 34215. Volunteers are at work Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays from 9:00 to 3:00..
Both welcome volunteers of various skill levels, donations and other meaningful contributions.
Here are a few more photos:
Laylah & Nancy's China
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Test Bed One
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Larry Page's Whitehall
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The Dilly Boat
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Tarpon Springs Gulf Maritime Festival
Tarpon Springs, a bit like a sister city to Cortez, held its Second
Annual Gulf Maritime Festival Saturday, March 5, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on
the Sponge Docks along Dodecanese Boulevard between Athens and Roosevelt
streets. The area looked like a small Cortez Commercial Fishing
Festival. Bob Pitt and Museum volunteers Rick Viera, Jerry and Judy
Bien, Chuck Kekoni, Marge Coon, set up a tent and had a Florida Gulf
Coast Maritime Museum display. Two of the Historic American Merchant
Marine Survey, (HAMMS) volumes that included Florida boats were open on
the table. Bill Baum’s Model of the Louisa, a ship with Tarpon
Springs connections, was there. They even brought the Sallie Adams, the
first boat built by boat shop volunteers, to display. Bob also brought
Soupy Davis and Robin Schutt. Soupy and his Band took their turns playing on the stage
to liven up the occasion. Nice warm, sunny day, with lots of good Greek
food available too. Lots of working sponge boats close by on the waterfront too. It would be a good idea to look for this festival next year.
New Festival Shower Top
The 6th Annual Florida Gulf Coast Small Craft Festival is April 15, 16,
& 17 (of course you are coming). Bob Pitt received word from the Park Rangers at the De Soto National Park on the Manatee River that
they no longer needed a roof on a structure there and that, for the
bargain price of coming and getting it, we could have it. Bob decided
that it would be just the thing to top off the new Festival showers. (It’s true, new showers, next year. Well, they haven’t really appeared yet, but
we’ve started at the top anyway.) We had to leave the clay tiles there
because of the weight, but we got the rest of it back ok.
3/12
F.I..S.H. workers and festival volunteers had a barbecue for each other and the F. I. S. H. board members to celebrate the success of the 29th annual Commercial Fish Festival in its new location. Many people had expressed concern about the new location, but only before the event. About 40 people attended the pot luck meal. Any Pot Luck in Cortez means lots to eat and a guaranteed large attendence. The chicken, hot dogs, and Italian sausage seasoned Jerry Bien’s newly made barbecue grill Everyone expressed satisfaction with the meal and the F. I. S. H. Festival.
3/18/’11
Both Dick Scully and Harvey Levine, retired volunteers who both celebrated their 90th birthdays recently, visited the new boat shop and the current volunteers for lunch on St Pattrick’s Day (note Dick’s Shirt). We were all glad to see them.
