We needed a slip n slide for LP 2014! :mad:

Julie and I are going to have to cancel. We got a close friend's wedding invitation last week, and it's the same date. We'll miss you all.
Dave

Other @*&^%$"_@ Friends
 

Dang Dave, you need to jettison some of those old friends who 1) borrow your pick up truck to move, 2) have ya' lend money to 'em, 3) know all about yur bad habits and 4) want you to rent a Tux and stand up for 'em when they git hitched.

Now son, you ain't think'in about the fact that this here Git Together ain't like one of them normal ones - it's right after that dang mid-term Elections! Peoples is gone to be celebrat'in one way or the other. They is either going to be excited that we turned a couple of degrees to Starboard and might be gitt'in out of the Doldrums OR they's gonna be try'in to kill the pain of think'in about liv'in on the same planet as the History challenged, snot-nosed, what's in it for me Crowd!!

These dang weddings ain't been work'in out lately anyhow. - Why bother miss'in a Gathering just to go to some'thin a Judge and two Bull Shark attorneys is gonna' run through a paper shredder in a couple of years anyhow? Conner and Karen and Marsha and my's wedd'ins just hang'in on by a thread 'cause the 'old Guy and I, we's honed the skill of disguising actual boat operational costs as Little League, PETA, Habitat for Humanity, Save the Jellyfish, and I stand with the Mosquitos contributions and important stuff like that. This ain't an actual Lois Learner approved deduction but we managed to put up enough of a smoke screen of BS to not only throw off the IRS the NSA and the DHS but most importantly, our wives! Conner and I took a blood oath that if we ever git caught with these schemes, we's jump'in off the Skyway.
I'll probably jump down there by the bait house where it ain't too high - but still, I'd have to swim to Cockroach Bay and live out the rest of my years there where I know Marsha would never look. It would be a simple life, cabbage palm hearts, roasted whelk conch, sleep'in on a picnic table and occasionally Donny would send a bottle of Elixer out with the falling tide from Apollo Beach! Someday maybe Snookerd would bring me one of them new fancy SeaCraft tee shirts, but I'd have to send it back, if it wasn't in the Moesly "script".

Terry makes far better arguments than me, but I'll try and make sure the oysters with your names on them don't get eaten(at least til next year)

Connor

"I'll probably jump down there by the bait house where it ain't too high - but still, I'd have to swim to Cockroach Bay and live out the rest of my years there where I know Marsha would never look. It would be a simple life, cabbage palm hearts, roasted whelk conch, sleep'in on a picnic table and occasionally Donny would send a bottle of Elixer out with the falling tide from Apollo Beach!"

I would be happy to, plus I will also bring you mosquito repellent by the gallons!! I would be sure to bring you the highest DEET available, because "apple pie shine" is highly effective mixed with high doses of DEET. Don't get me wrong your eyes will look kinda funny bulging out of your head, but you'll feel great!!! :) Things I would do for fellow CSC folks.

"Goofs Cubed" or G to the 3rd power
 

[QUOTE=DonV;230546 Don't get me wrong your eyes will look kinda funny bulging out of your head, but you'll feel great!!! :) Things I would do for fellow CSC folks.[/QUOTE]

Donny, I am constantly in awe with the CSC site. If I am able to connect some kind of zany story I dream up by one carbon fiber strand to the SeaCraft Community and I'm cruis'in down the left lane of Interstate "Goof" with a cement block on the gas peddle, somebody passes me on the grass, in the median!

People is crazy here and my cheeks hurt from the smirk! We're gonna' get a lot of stuff straightened out at that bar on Cabbage Key - you just wait and see!

I have this funny feeling.
That we will be doing shots of 100% Deet....:rolleyes:
While rubbing "shine" on our skin for skeeter' repellant.. :o

I'm not ready to die yet.. OK, Black-out........:D

Yes Sir Ken, we need to be careful!!

If 'ol Terry is coming to spend time in Cockroach Bay he's gonna really, and I mean really need some bug spray!!!! So being the kind soul I am I figured when I bring him some "apple pie", ONLY for medicinal reasons, I would also help him with the bug problem. How he works the dosage issue of the combination of DEET and shine is his problem!!!! :) I will see a lawyer before hand!!

I`m going to rub myself down with ATF and acetone. Helps me fit into my body bag.

OK Donny, here's the plan -
When Sandy gets all comfy in his body bag greased up like he's talkin' about, we shimmy up the banyan tree right over his queen size picnic table and on the count of three we drop down and land like two Mack Super-liners just south of the centerline of his little hermetically sealed capsule. He'll launch him outa' there like a field pea. Once ejaculated from his pod he'll skip across the Intracoastal like a stone thrown by buy Randy Johnson over to Useppa and come to rest on Dan Rather's front porch. That'll make some headlines.
He should know better'n to give a couple of Crackers like us "a shot" like that. He just probably thinks that yur from Apollo Beach and that's kinda' sophisticated. What he don't know is that Apollo Beach is "sam-witched" between Bullfrog Creek and Cockroach Bay!!

I seem to remember being the only dry pirate who was not in an RV.

Oh this line is almost to good to pass up...however since this is a family web site and we have to be PC correct...:D:D

Speaking of once....."I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was!" :)

The sight of GFS "shooting" out of his lubricated capsule bellowing "F" bombs would be quite entertaining!!

Yep, you'er right Sandy, The rest of us were paddeling around in our tents like we were in partially deflated Zodiac's that got brushed against the barnicals one to many times. You was perched up high and dry like the LightHouse keeper of SeaCraft Island! The only one dryer was Doodle Bug.

It will be nice over on Cayo Costa in November. Here's the beach where Conner and Karen go skinney dippen when they are down there.

Karen always comes back with a nice bag of shells too and all Conner has is a silly grin on his face!

Hey, I thought this was a family website. You're not supposed to tell my secrets. Most especially don't tell'm that the place is deserted early morning and sundown. Nobody there but us and the sharks.

Free Willy the shark.

Can I still come to gathering
 

Hello guys,
I'm just about to finish up my 18 after a complete rebuild.
Is it to late to come to your gathering at cabbage key.
I'm over in Jensen Beach about 3 hours away.
Many thanks

Heck no, it's never too late. See if they have a room left at the Cabbage Key Inn if you want the A/C blow'in on ya. Their phone number is (239) 383-2278. Pine Island is at the west end of State Road 78. Pineland Marina is just a couple miles north on Stringfellow Road then west.

"Sponge"????? Hummmm.....does this mean I need to bring some extra shine? :)

Sponge – come on over.... Apparently there's gonna be some wild times at cabbage Key!

In doors of course! :eek:

Gathering
 

Sounds good,
Hope I get it finished up in time.
Bolting on the Suzuki next week and start rigging.
Thx guys.

Pulled some strings and landed a few spots in the big water so if the weather cooperates we should have fish to fry!

I guess the 25 Seafari qualifies as an RV? We were pretty dry. Except when we ran across the Intracoastal for lunch. Didn't see any other RVs following us, though.

Of course. You can write that off as a second home. You had more fun than we did.
You also have dry figured out. Boat vs picnic table. You choose.

Bug Report
 

My Bro-in-law was down to Cayo Costa over Labor Day and he said Lee County was Helo-Spraying the islands for Skeeters. They had a few No-see-em's at dusk and dawn but never a mosquito bite all weekend. Weird - mosquito's love my blood and I quit going down there after it starts raining in June. If we get one cool front by then it might break both the Stone Crabs and Trout loose.
Gillie, you need to think about a scouting mission, Professor

November Gathering Activities
 

So a number of CSCer's have been PM'in me about stuff like "which wreck in 240' has the biggest Warsaw's?" and "where are the red's tail'in in November?" to "which bar has the most big screens for the games on Saturday? and "I got to take the 'ol lady shopp'in or I can't go next year".

Since you guys is used to navigat'in through the perils of life and I ain't no fish'in Guide, Chicken Wing Connoisseur, or Marriage Councilor anyway, I just thought I'd give you a couple of "way points" to steer to -

1) Boat'in - You is in the epi-center of Florida West Coast Intra-coastal navigat'in. !0 miles north across Boca Grande Pass is Gasparilla Island - favorite retreat of the fishing POTUS and other celebs. To the south, Upper Captiva, Captiva Island, Sanabel Island and Fort Myers Beach. To the east Bookelia, Matlache' and St.James on pine Island and Punta Gorda, on up the mouth of the Peace River. Well marked intra-coastal channels, if the wind is blowing - if not, 40 miles of blinding white beaches with coconut and cabbage palm stands and snook running in the tidal pools.

2) Fishin' - Gag Grouper closes on December 1, troll 'em up in the channel, at the bend with spoons or bomber rigs. If the water is clear the big guys on the ledges inn 40' hit first. As the days shorten and the water cools down big fish move up near the Pass to fatten up for the winter. Very little pressure on offshore species down there except for Trader Ter and a few others. If the water cools down trout fishing is spectacular within sight of the water tower on Cabbage Key. Follow Conner to the secret oyster bank for big reds tailing south of the stilt houses. Cabbage key will cook your catch and Kmoose is planning to put a Dusty Rhodes "strangler hold" on a couple groupers for the cookout at Cayo Costa on Saturday night.

3) Somebody stepped on my fingers, on the way home partyin' - Apple Mosquito Elixir rations are to be administered by Dr. Donny. We is try'in to tamp down the chance of Dengue Fever by beefing up in extra inoculations in this area and Dr. Donny is in charge. Between Cabbage Key, Tarpon Lodge, Barnacle Phil's, The Laughs-a-lot, Matlache' Rod and Gun club, Casa de la Kmoose and Casa de la Costa you should be able to decipher Sandy's zaniest comments with perfect clarity and picnic tables are now your new best friends. Saddle up pilgrim!

Circle back if you need any more Local Insight, but don't forget to lean on Ter #1 (IslandTrader), Conner (Cdavisdb), Richard (76red18) and "Stitch'in Mike" (Mikem8560) because those guys are like "Fun Think Tanks" on stuff down there.

'Matlache' Rod and Gun club".......Really? I wonder if they are associated with the Showmen's Association of "carnies" here in Gibsonton, after all nothing like seeing the lobster man, midget man or hairy fat woman at the local Gib'town Wal-Mart!!

Back to important stuff.....I wonder if "apple pie" will also work on the Ebola virus like the Dengue fever? I've noticed most of the Americans that get the Ebola virus are there helping out from different religious organizations and I'm betting they don't drink. So I'm willing to help with a cure! If nothing else they will have more fun in Africa drinking copious amounts of apple pie! :)

Well, I started working out the logistics for the CC gathering now that we are closing in on a this trip that myself and the Puerto Rican Princess are really looking forward to. We have reserved the Heritage House for a full 7 days to include the gathering as well a a couple of days before and after to know what it feels like to live every day like Island Trader if only for a week. :D Anyway, I decided to take a look at Google Earth and route out our travel and plan location based activities for the duration. I also was doing recon on the key as well to see where to park the truck and trailer and how convenient it would be to jump in the truck to go for supplies, fuel, ice, etc. When I started to pan out from the cottage I was having a hard time finding the roads connected to the key. It didn't take long to figure out that the "key" was a non-connected island to which the only access was via water only! For me this is a non-issue. I regularly spend time offshore for over a week and can pack everything I could possibly need in a single duffle and a couple bags of groceries.... Melissa however is a logistical junky and cannot do a 3 nite business trip without two full check suitcases and a carry on. I debated at first to delay informing her of the slight change in conventional on location travel logistics but I chickened out told her the truck would not be errr need where we would be staying. Needless to say she at first was second guessing my choice of accommodations but has now started the "list" of supplies that will be required for her to be stranded on a deserted island for a week. Oh the horror of it all! :)

Anybody who can drive a boat like she can will figure it out.




Do what she says.

Hi Ken, This is Marsha. If you park your truck and trailer at Pineland Marina, it is the closest to Cabbage Key. If you un-hitch the trailer, then if Mel decides she needs something, she can call me and I'll run her over to your truck if you are out fishing. There is a Winn Dixie just past the 4 way stop street at Pine Island Road and Stringfellow about 3 miles away. It's just past the Subway by the big tree with the yellow flowers on it. Also there are some cute shops in Matlache with lots of colorful cloths, so I might need to be her shopping guide and go too! We'll just tie the boat up at Pineland and come back with a pickup truck full of clothes and a bag of cheetos for dinner! Just get that goofy husband out of my hair for an afternoon and I'll get even with him for all that money he spends on boats!
Marsha England
PS, I owe you for the peppers you picked up for me, for my Ceveche' at Long Point.

When you do any long distance hiking or canoeing, ounces are no longer a silly measurement. Portage a canoe and a pack on your back and you will understand the lightness of being.

Sometimes landing on a picnic table is better than building one and painting it on site.

My sister had a whole dresser devoted to fair isle sweaters. Priorities.

Sandy, can one contribute to the "the Lightness of being" with plastic valve covers, Aluminum cam-shafts, Titanium valve springs, and alloy heads or are they just better off without them all together? Approximately how many grams is "nothing"? Not that I'm trying to get that old 2-S xs. 4-S thing going again, but your comment on "the lightness of being" made me think - which is never good!

I don`t have any soft camshafts. Just nice sounds from my crankcase and prop.
The gremlins are chasing my new system check tach again. New low regulator is in my future
maybe. My brother throws checks at his boat. I like a different tour.

Cheers,
GFS

I look forward to stopping any and all AWOL's :eek::eek::eek:

Just happen to have several very low use Denver Boots
ready to be installed upon arrival at Pineland...:cool:

Ain't nobody goin' nowhere for the duration..

Let the good times roll...:D

Roger that, Sanderman. I remember your crusade vs the forces of ole evil yani tiltpin and your arsenal of flamethrowers, battering rams, and k-yroil and the noble way you mercilessly beat that oxidized sleeved heathen and victoriously preserved kings ransom that remained in the cafe la llave can, deep in in the shadows of your bungalow. Easily 2 or 3 snappah trips worth of fuel...


Carry on wayward son...:cool:

Bro paid 2600 clams for his tnt. I can get a whole white pig for that. White Motahs forevah.

Gather'ins!!!!
 

Gee Willickers, would you guys say focused like a laser beam in the topics of this section? It's supposed to be ''GATHERINGS" and nothin' else. Danny's going to raise sand with us because you guys keep strayin' off course! (ie. "the lightness of being") The Gatherings steering is either low on hydralic fluid, got a broken Teleflex, or the rack and pinion's tore up!

So stay focused, and don't bring up nothin' about Ken's chain drive Suzuki, Don's coil eat'in Merc's, Island Trader's gimbal bearings, Danny's 2 smoke Jon-rude or Conner's props that turn both ways! You gotta' get from way-point 'A' to way-point 'B' somehow.

"Danny's going to raise sand with us because you guys keep strayin' off course!"

Yikes, I'm kinda skeeered!! Danny's gonna flog us with the tent from LP that holds more water inside than out. :) I'm gonna try and do better, but I'm going to be there anyway.

The Florida threads can be run off the rails every day. The end result has always been a shared passion. A love of learning, sweating, and execution.

I think about how far I have come since falling down the rabbit hole. These rabbit holes did not exist 20 years ago. You had to work for a rabbit and hope you could make your warren happy. Now you can see what other rabbits are doing. When I was a young bunny, I always worked for rabbits with the biggest bags of Trix.

Cheers,
Slacker Air