Ft Myers Offshore (FMO), Jan Useppa Island run, photos

[appsyscons]

This weekend, I participated in the Ft. Myers Offshore, Jan Useppa Island run. Thank you Bob and the entire FMO team for yet another great day of hi-performance boating. I knew the low tide Sat morning would prevent me from getting my boat off the lift, as you can see in my pictures the river was very dry. On Fri I moved my boat to my brother-in-laws dock, behind a lock, so the tide wound not be a factor. We spend from 8:30 until about 4:00 boating, what a great day. I ran 114 miles, burned 52.5 gallons of 93 octane, that's 2.17mpg.

All 135 of my pictures are at the link below:


all 135 pictures - click here

Here are a few:

all 135 pictures - click here

 

[Donskihp]

Fantastic job on the picks, nice quality, sure wish I were there! Virginia winter weather sucks!

 

[Ratickle]

Thanks for the pics, good stuff....


Much better than the 3' of snow we have here.....

 

[old377guy]

Thanks for the pics, good stuff....


Much better than the 3' of snow we have here.....

Balmy Portland still beckons thee!

 

[Ratickle]

Balmy Portland still beckons thee!

Looks like we'll be there in late July or early August. Probably spend a few days at the coast for sure.

 

[old377guy]

The rain should be slowing down by July 5th

 

[appsyscons]

Here are 3 pictures that came our exceptional, and since I have 18m pixels for each, I am considering making some poster size prints.

 

[lucky strike]

Good stuff

 

[raceboatrus]

wow what great pictures , I hope you had fun. You guys look like afun crowd. I hope you come to the 2011 Boating Toys for Tots Tour, I wiil buy you a beer at the TFT

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

The third one post #7 is awesome.

 

[bajarick]

Nice pictures frank.

 

[appsyscons]

Thanks you all, for the comments about the pictures.

Just about everyone, seems to really like that dock shot. That picture was taken 7:15am, about 20 minutes before low tide, and at that time I had about 2ft 6in of water out at my lift (I checked), 360ft out into the river. On that Sat morning it was dry out to about 100ft. Other times with the winter tides it can be dry out to 180ft. People often ask me why my dock is so long, and I show them pictures like those I posted.

 

[Bodyshot1]

killer shots!....NJ sux..lol

 

[Bobcat]

The dock shot is definitely poster worthy.....As a jigsaw puzzle fan it would make a nice puzzler !