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Blue Heron (in 'evening dress' w/ screened windows), my second/last Naples boat, seventeen foot "Switzer-Craft". Kept at my upper Naples Bay condo. Sold her in 1998.
She's fully rigged for cruising, powered by a ninety horse Yamaha and six horse kicker. Used for trips to Flamingo, southern most tip mainland Florida (www.nps.gov/ever/planyourvisit/flamdirections.htm 140 nm trip) often for Easter and Christmas and to the middle and lower Florida Keys (http://florida-keys.fl.us/maps/mainmap.htm 200 nm trip), slept two, with color TV, hot & cold water & shower, cooking & sanitary facilities, fans for air circulation and a fold-up bike. Two deep cycle 6-v batteries in series and a 12-v for back up. (One carefully picks his weather to venture far. Caught in five foot following seas once and believe me that was not fun).
"Fond memories for us, too! Remember our trip to the Keys - and my first attempt at snorkeling? Fond memories - and I could add to that - White Horse Key (of 10,000) islands - always amazed that we found our way home!" Lois Haupt, Sept 1, 2008
Picture taken at now extinct Faro Blanco www.marinamate.com/wsf-fbr.html bay-side marina, Marathon, middle keys, day of the Oklahoma City bombing 19 April 1995.
