LONG POINT 4/11-4/12/08 *Camp sites are going fast

NoBones · #1 01-31-2008, 10:56 PM

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My kids were on a SeaCraft by the time they were 6 weeks old........

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Ok, were they conceived on a SeaCraft...

These boats tend to excite more then just a mind rush.

See ya, Ken

Oh yeah, just grand kids for me, no young-uns'
coming with the Mrs. & myself...

Snookerd · #2 01-31-2008, 10:59 PM

Watch out for those Sceptre guys..............

Fr. Frank · #3 02-06-2008, 08:33 AM

Dan, I love the new avatar pic.

Snookerd · #4 02-06-2008, 09:26 AM

Thanks Frank. I am trying to make the pic a bit bigger and put it in my signature. Jupiter Lighthouse is the big symbol of growing up in Jupiter and the kids, well, they are my life outside of my SeaCraft

NoBones · #5 02-07-2008, 10:12 AM

Here is your Big brother lighthouse

Ken

Snookerd · #6 02-07-2008, 11:23 AM

very cool Ken...............

Fr. Frank · #7 02-08-2008, 12:42 AM

I grew up in Palm Beach, as well. Grandparents lived on Brazilian in Palm Beach, I grew up in Lake Worth and Palm Beach Gardens. I was the Dockmaster at Waterway Marina at PGA blvd and the ICW back in '83-'84, when Frank Brown was right across the street.

I learned to waterski in sight of that lighthouse. I've run in Jupiter Inlet in a 25' Robalo when it was 9-15' offshore and breaking 20' in the inlet 'cause we didn't have the fuel to ride the Nor'easter out, and knew an anchor wouldn't hold. I've also run out the mouth of the inlet when it was as smooth as a sheet of glass at over 70 mph in a 30' Velocity. I knew Jupiter well. I hav'nt been through it in 16 years.

I hope to see y'all at Long Point, though I can't stay the night.

Capt Chuck · #8 02-08-2008, 01:01 AM

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and breaking 20' in the inlet 'cause we didn't have the fuel to ride the Nor'easter out

The only fuel you did have was the Parish Vino...running the inlet with a 25' Robalo breaking 20' ....who you bullchiting Father

Snookerd · #9 02-08-2008, 01:06 AM

Capt.Chuck, don't slow'em down, he's on a roll............I was just going in the BS mode myself.........

Fr. Frank · #10 02-11-2008, 10:51 PM

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The only fuel you did have was the Parish Vino...running the inlet with a 25' Robalo breaking 20' ....who you bullchiting Father

Nope, no kidding Chuck, it was breaking 20 or more. It seemed like it was even bigger at the time. I was about 15 or 16 years old, and not at the helm, just a passenger, along with a couple of other friends, on one their dad's boat. It seemed like Capt. George rode the back of the same wave from more than 1/4 mile out.

I clearly remember being down in the trough looking up at waves that towered way high over the T-top. That kind of Nor'easter is why Jupiter Inlet is the 9th most dangerous inlet in the USA. Every year they'll get one or two storms where the break on the bar straight out from the inlet is straight out of a nightmare.

Back in the early '84, I remember a seventy-something foot Broward broaching and nearly capsizing in Jupiter Inlet in just such a storm. They hit their running gear on the second bar in the trough between swells and lost steering.

Chuck, you live near there, would you try to shoot Jupiter in a 30 knot N'East squall line? I won't. My friend Kevin's dad George said we didn't have the fuel to go to Lake Worth or St. Lucie. I believed him. We made it in. Exciting memories of a very scary experience.