The Second Messabout of the New Year (2012)
Plan for the Second FLorida Gulf Coast Traditional Small Craft Association’s messabout on Saturday February 25th, from about 9am to 2pm, weather permitting. It will happen in Bradenton at our neighbor's to the immediate East of the F.I.S.H. Preserve and the F.I.S.H. Boat Works We have the permission of Paradise Bay Estates to use their boat ramp at the southern end of 106th (10600) street and adjacent area for our Messabout. Several members of the FGCTSCA live there. Members of the PBE park (which includes the Sarasota Bay R.V. Park as well), are invited to join us with our thanks. Maybe we will attract some new members and volunteers.
You can launch small single hull boats, kayaks, canoes, etc., here. Larger boats might be more successfully launched across the bay at the Coquina Beach boat launching site. We will have the usual pot luck lunch with continued great expectations of variety and tasty delights. There are no facilities there but we will bring tables and rent a portable toilet. Sorry for the late notice, but it took a bit of time to go through their Board Meeting process. Doug Calhoun
You can launch small single hull boats, kayaks, canoes, etc., here. Larger boats might be more successfully launched across the bay at the Coquina Beach boat launching site. We will have the usual pot luck lunch with continued great expectations of variety and tasty delights. There are no facilities there but we will bring tables and rent a portable toilet. Sorry for the late notice, but it took a bit of time to go through their Board Meeting process. Doug Calhoun
Win this Sailboat:
Only $5 a Raffle Ticket. The winner will be announced at the end of the Commercial Fishing Festival on Feb. 19. Here is some information that is being circulated to the news media: Ahoy mate. You can cruise the high seas in your own 22 Foot Catalina sailboat. For just $5 some lucky sailor will win this Catalina sailboat complete with outboard motor and sails when it will be raffled off by the Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez’s lottery.
You can have the boat loaded on your trailer, or it can be put it in the water for you to sail away. It’s in great shape too.
Come and take a look at it. The boat is parked by the Florida Maritime Museum at 4415 - 119th Street West, Cortez 34215. Inspect the boat and then go inside to buy your raffle ticket.and visit the museum. Tickets can be purchased at the Museum or by mail at the same address.
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.
The winning ticket will be drawn at the end of the Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival on February 19, 2012
The boat will be raffled and someone will win it: it may as well be you.
Contact Ted Adams at the Museum or Phone: (941) 708-6120 or email: ted.adams@manateeclerk.com
6th Annual Florida Gulf Coast Small Craft Festival sailed into
history, but you can retain the memory by buying one of the few remaining souvenir T-shirts still available. The design by Irwin Schuster is based on the Spanish longboat the Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez made for the Desoto National Park on the Manatee River. The boat is named the Ana Mendez for the only known Female survivor of the Hernando Desoto 1539 expedition landing at Florida. Get yours while they last. Contact Ted Adams at The Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez Ph. 941-708-6120 or visit the Museum and buy one then.
You can have the boat loaded on your trailer, or it can be put it in the water for you to sail away. It’s in great shape too.
Come and take a look at it. The boat is parked by the Florida Maritime Museum at 4415 - 119th Street West, Cortez 34215. Inspect the boat and then go inside to buy your raffle ticket.and visit the museum. Tickets can be purchased at the Museum or by mail at the same address.
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.
The winning ticket will be drawn at the end of the Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival on February 19, 2012
The boat will be raffled and someone will win it: it may as well be you.
Contact Ted Adams at the Museum or Phone: (941) 708-6120 or email: ted.adams@manateeclerk.com
6th Annual Florida Gulf Coast Small Craft Festival sailed into
history, but you can retain the memory by buying one of the few remaining souvenir T-shirts still available. The design by Irwin Schuster is based on the Spanish longboat the Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez made for the Desoto National Park on the Manatee River. The boat is named the Ana Mendez for the only known Female survivor of the Hernando Desoto 1539 expedition landing at Florida. Get yours while they last. Contact Ted Adams at The Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez Ph. 941-708-6120 or visit the Museum and buy one then.
Florida Gulf Coast Small Craft Festival details
The 7th Annual Florida Gulf Coast Small Craft Festival at the Florida Maritime Museum at Cortez is fast approaching (April 20 - 22). The weather looks good: currently fluctuating between the high 70s and the low 80s. For those who want to camp out, the F.I.S.H. The Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage (check out their website: http://www.cortez-fish.org/) property, which does include the Florida Maritime Museum and the new Boatshop, is ideal for camping: cared for grounds with lots of room, outdoorsy showers available (wear flip-flops, Florida shoes), and lots of good food within walking distance.
Bring a boat if you have one. Compete in the races, compete in boat building or just plan to attend. There will be lots of small boats to look at and get ideas.
For the early arrivals, Friday evening (at 7:00 ), a pot luck/bring a dish to pass dinner has gained a reputation for having a wondrous selection of Florida style culinary delicacies and other good eats which of course creates a friendly atmosphere and new friends.
Saturday is the main day, and you will be able to find information about it on the website: FGCTSCA.weebly.com The site will also have the page with the registration forms and the Small Craft Festival page for photos too. There’s a page with a list of hotels for those coming long distances and who want more comfort than camping out. The speaker for the dinner on Saturday night is yet to be invited
You will be able to ask Bob Pitt, our Boatbuilder, about some of our new acquisitions and the work we have to do on them. Rick Viera and his crew can tell you about their three years of work on the newly restored fishing boat the Smiley and the uses now planned for it. Dave Lucas and some of his boatbuilding crew plan to attend (you may get his email about this event too). So punch 4415 119th Street West, Cortez, Florida 34215 (Corner of Cortez Road West) into your GPS and see you here. Doug Calhoun.
Temporary Schedule of Events (all subject to revision by March):
Friday April 20th
Boat Launchings all day for the Early Arrivals
7:00 PM Pot Luck/Bring-a-Dish-to-Pass supper featuring Paul Thomas’s main course of Chicken & Rice paella. Bring a dish that will go with his or bring one you have had success with in the past Bring a side dish, a dessert, fruit dish, salad, whatever you feel comfortable with for supper. (Really good home made bread?) As an added gourmet treat, Jerry Bien will fire up the grill and cook your choice items for you.
Saturday April 21st
8:00 AM Coffee and Donuts
10:00 AM Official Opening
11:00 AM Paddle Races for Canoes and Kayaks at the dock.
11:30 AM Rowing Races for fixed or sliding seat boats at the dock.
12:00 Noon Lunch Break - several good places to eat in town.
Ca.12:30 Skippers’ meeting for races.
1:00 PM Mullet Cup Races for all classes, Rules to be announced. Boat Number must be visible on your boat to participate.
3:00 PM Sea Chanty sing along on the deck behind the banquet hall.
6:30 PM Dinner for participants in the Bayside Banquet Hall with tickets
Ca. 7:30 PM Presentation by Stan Zimmerman, Sarasota author of a History of Smuggling in Florida.
Ca. 8:30 PM Awards ceremony. After the awards ceremony the sea chanty group Main Hatch Motles with have a sing along on the deck behind the banquet hall.
Sunday April 22nd
8:00 AM Coffee and donuts Maritime Flea market on Museum grounds
9:00 AM General Messabout
11:00 AM Possible Gunkholing.
Bring a boat if you have one. Compete in the races, compete in boat building or just plan to attend. There will be lots of small boats to look at and get ideas.
For the early arrivals, Friday evening (at 7:00 ), a pot luck/bring a dish to pass dinner has gained a reputation for having a wondrous selection of Florida style culinary delicacies and other good eats which of course creates a friendly atmosphere and new friends.
Saturday is the main day, and you will be able to find information about it on the website: FGCTSCA.weebly.com The site will also have the page with the registration forms and the Small Craft Festival page for photos too. There’s a page with a list of hotels for those coming long distances and who want more comfort than camping out. The speaker for the dinner on Saturday night is yet to be invited
You will be able to ask Bob Pitt, our Boatbuilder, about some of our new acquisitions and the work we have to do on them. Rick Viera and his crew can tell you about their three years of work on the newly restored fishing boat the Smiley and the uses now planned for it. Dave Lucas and some of his boatbuilding crew plan to attend (you may get his email about this event too). So punch 4415 119th Street West, Cortez, Florida 34215 (Corner of Cortez Road West) into your GPS and see you here. Doug Calhoun.
Temporary Schedule of Events (all subject to revision by March):
Friday April 20th
Boat Launchings all day for the Early Arrivals
7:00 PM Pot Luck/Bring-a-Dish-to-Pass supper featuring Paul Thomas’s main course of Chicken & Rice paella. Bring a dish that will go with his or bring one you have had success with in the past Bring a side dish, a dessert, fruit dish, salad, whatever you feel comfortable with for supper. (Really good home made bread?) As an added gourmet treat, Jerry Bien will fire up the grill and cook your choice items for you.
Saturday April 21st
8:00 AM Coffee and Donuts
10:00 AM Official Opening
11:00 AM Paddle Races for Canoes and Kayaks at the dock.
11:30 AM Rowing Races for fixed or sliding seat boats at the dock.
12:00 Noon Lunch Break - several good places to eat in town.
Ca.12:30 Skippers’ meeting for races.
1:00 PM Mullet Cup Races for all classes, Rules to be announced. Boat Number must be visible on your boat to participate.
3:00 PM Sea Chanty sing along on the deck behind the banquet hall.
6:30 PM Dinner for participants in the Bayside Banquet Hall with tickets
Ca. 7:30 PM Presentation by Stan Zimmerman, Sarasota author of a History of Smuggling in Florida.
Ca. 8:30 PM Awards ceremony. After the awards ceremony the sea chanty group Main Hatch Motles with have a sing along on the deck behind the banquet hall.
Sunday April 22nd
8:00 AM Coffee and donuts Maritime Flea market on Museum grounds
9:00 AM General Messabout
11:00 AM Possible Gunkholing.
