Capt Sam Nelson and I started the Boot Key Harbor Boat Parade in 1996 with the Marathon Sail and Power Squadron as it’s annual sponsor. This is held the second Saturday of December each year.

Boot Key Harbor is the best protected anchorage in all of the Keys, plus plenty of Marina's, Restaurants and Business to reprovision. CLICK HERE for a graphical map of local points of interest, restaurants, …

The parade will start in from the West side of the Harbor (7 mile bridge side) at about 6pm and slowly meander Eastward past Lazy Days, Marathon Marina, Pancho's, Burdines, down to Dockside at the …

A couple of kids have lost toes around Boot Key Harbor because of this. This is especially true at dusk and night. - and certainly don't swim while chumming! Avoid swimming or hanging your body parts in …

Put-In-Bay Harbor (from Miller Boat Line docks) Catawba Island NW View: (from Catawba Island Club) Marblehead Lighthouse (Marblehead OH) OSU Stone Laboratory: (View of Put In Bay) Sandusky Ba …

Introduction: We live in Marathon Florida, right in the middle of the Keys, up a canal just off Boot Key Harbor, with our 50' trawler docked alongside. Our cruise speed is 8.5 - 10 knots. Each year we have …

I'm not much of a fisherman myself. I used to just jump over the side with a pole spear to get lunch once in a while, but I never was very good at fishing. In fact, I'm the only guy I know that trolled the entire …

Make sure that you check for both diving regulations, and also general regulations for diving and boating within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Make sure that you know what the big yellow …

Here are some of the manuals and product information that I personally collect for my own boat (s). I put it up here so that if my own hard drives crash I've saved the information here, but as long as I'm …

Don't be the crew on the SS Minnow - whose crew was "brave and tough". It's much smarter to check the weather in advance and plan accordingly. Here you can check the day to day weather before …