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03-12-2014, 07:08 PM
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Guru
City: St. Lucie VILLAGE -NOT- Port St. Lucie!!!!!
Vessel Model: 15' Hobie Power Skiff w/90hp Yamaha-owned 28 years. Also a 2001 Bayliner 3788 that I took in trade
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 525
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The literal end of the road, where dreams still live on.
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03-12-2014, 07:26 PM
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Technical Guru
City: Wilmington, NC
Vessel Name: Louisa
Vessel Model: Custom Built 38
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 6,194
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Got to be Stock Island. Used to be derided as seedy. Now probably the only place in the keys that actually has any character.
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03-12-2014, 07:26 PM
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Guru
City: St. Lucie VILLAGE -NOT- Port St. Lucie!!!!!
Vessel Model: 15' Hobie Power Skiff w/90hp Yamaha-owned 28 years. Also a 2001 Bayliner 3788 that I took in trade
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 525
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What more could you want? A Gulfstar with a view, a Mercedes, maybe a bicycle, and an air conditioner. That boy is marriage material here!
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03-12-2014, 07:31 PM
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Guru
City: St. Lucie VILLAGE -NOT- Port St. Lucie!!!!!
Vessel Model: 15' Hobie Power Skiff w/90hp Yamaha-owned 28 years. Also a 2001 Bayliner 3788 that I took in trade
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 525
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Yes!!!!
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03-12-2014, 07:48 PM
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Technical Guru
City: Wilmington, NC
Vessel Name: Louisa
Vessel Model: Custom Built 38
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 6,194
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My family has had a presence in the Keys for 35yrs. I've seen the place evolve. We have a joke that whenever someone in the eastern US gets kicked out of a town, they have a choice: west, north or south. Most of these characters go south. Town after town, they go south. When they run out of bridges, they have ended up in Key West. As of late, the get booted out of KW and go back to Stock Island.
Nice old car. Model A??
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03-12-2014, 07:55 PM
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ski in NC
My family has had a presence in the Keys for 35yrs. I've seen the place evolve. We have a joke that whenever someone in the eastern US gets kicked out of a town, they have a choice: west, north or south. Most of these characters go south. Town after town, they go south. When they run out of bridges, they have ended up in Key West. As of late, the get booted out of KW and go back to Stock Island.
Nice old car. Model A??
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And seems eventually the boat gets given away or sold on craigslist to some unsuspecting soul who gets pushed out to sea and soon finds it sinking.
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03-12-2014, 09:04 PM
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Guru
City: Windsor
Vessel Name: Keeper IV
Vessel Model: 44 Viking ACMY
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 1,350
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Stock Island ....and the Hogfish. Life is good.
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03-12-2014, 09:52 PM
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,563
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Greetings,
What's the old saying? Don't start vast boat projects with a half vast bank account.
I don't think that's a model A but I could be thrown off by the grille.
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03-13-2014, 03:24 AM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,559
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03-13-2014, 06:51 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Home Port: Buck's Harbor, Maine
Vessel Name: "Emily Anne"
Vessel Model: 2001 Island Gypsy 32 Europa (Hull #146)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 2,846
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mbevins
Stock Island ....and the Hogfish. Life is good.
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X2 on the Hogfish. Our favorite place. Although Alabama Jack's is interesting as well.
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Deer Isle, Maine
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03-13-2014, 12:44 PM
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Senior Member
City: Baltimore
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 305
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Kinda makes me remember Jimbo's. so many good times, good friends, good stories, and good memories (or lack there of). What a place!
I have only been traveling to south Florida for the last 15 years or so but in that short time i can see a change...more noticeable in the keys.
I am not a huge fan of the sterile, characterless place most of south florida has become. If i wanted Disney world i'd have stayed in Orlando.
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03-13-2014, 01:12 PM
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Guru
City: Carefree, Arizona
Vessel Name: sunchaser V
Vessel Model: DeFever 48 (sold)
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 10,185
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ski in NC
Nice old car. Model A??
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Looks like a '34 Ford 2 door sedan tear drop grill. Definitely not an A, their run ended in '31. Very much sought after with the hand crank hole in the grill and suicide doors. The '35s - '37s looked similar but I don't recall the grill design going past '34. This is the era when the flat head V8 was born.
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03-13-2014, 03:27 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sunchaser
Looks like a '34 Ford 2 door sedan tear drop grill. Definitely not an A, their run ended in '31. Very much sought after with the hand crank hole in the grill and suicide doors. The '35s - '37s looked similar but I don't recall the grill design going past '34. This is the era when the flat head V8 was born.
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I knew it wasn't a Deuce because of the suicide doors. Thought it may be a '33 Victoria, but the crank hole in the grill threw me off that. I thought the crank hole went away with the advent of the V8. My brother had a '31 A and a '40 coupe.
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