2011 – Holiday Cruise
The cruise started as all Christmas cruises do with the participating boats loosely gathering at Pelican Harbor a day or so after Christmas. With few exceptions, all boats stop at Pelican coming and going to Fisherman’s Village. Most were there the nights of December 28-29. Chase the Clouds hosted the required get together. There were [...]
2011 – Thanksgiving Cruise
November 24th – 27th: This is the cruise for which no one wanted to be the cruise leader. So – Linda Raymond (Zydeco) sent out a nice email blast relating a very simple plan for Thanksgiving Dinner at Cabbage Key on Thursday. Well – the plan worked extremely well. Altogether, 24-CMCS boats showed up. Lots [...]
2011 – Matanzas Pass Cruise
November 4th thru 6th: The weekend turned out to be beautiful. Friday was a bit breezy, which created a bit of a challenge picking up a mooring at the Matanzas Pass mooring field. But, once secured, the three boats which arrived this day had a comfortable evening. The crew from Miller Time and Windswept joined [...]
2011 – 10,000 Islands Cruise
June 4th to June 12th 10,000 Island Cruise Report by Ned Christensen Passion III arrived at Panther Key on the afternoon of June 7th to find Jerry and Kathleen Wellens on SLO DANCE, and Dan and Debbie Merriman on AIR BOSS already at anchor, having arrived the day before. On the way down, Art Gross, [...]
2011 – Danger Island
The year-long wait was finally coming to fruition as the CMCS yachts sailed into the Pelican Bay anchorage for the beginning of Danger Island Memorial Day Weekend. The seventeen boats arriving on Friday were: Shadowfax, Russell & Kathleen Vance Antares, Dennis & Suzanne Aguilera Miller Time, Tim & Deedee Cheek Katitude, Richard & Jimmie Chew [...]
2011 – Going North Cruise
The first day of the “North” cruise was as exciting as opening day at Yankee Stadium. Your new cruise leaders were Russell & Kathleen Vance. The winds were a clean Easterly, thus everyone had a great three or four hour sail, depending on their starting time. Entering Pelican Bay were: Shadowfax, Blank Check, Gopher Baroque, [...]
