What's next?

[Cuda]

Now that our weekend at Porkey's is over, what's next on the agenda? I'd like to do something every month. I know the Toys for Tots run is next month on Lake Harris. We went last year, and plan on going again this year. It's be cool if some Donzi brethren came up to run with us. :)

[onesubdrvr]

Now that our weekend at Porkey's is over, what's next on the agenda? I'd like to do something every month. I know the Toys for Tots run is next month on Lake Harris. We went last year, and plan on going again this year. It's be cool if some Donzi brethren came up to run with us. :)
Joe,

Depending on what's going on here, that might make a good day run for the whole family,......it would do the kids a little good to be reminded that there are other kids in very bad circumstances that they can help give atleast a little happiness too. Do you have a link to the infor about it?

Wayne

[Last Tango]

What is the date of the run? Do we stay at Lakeside Inn in Mt. Dora for an overnighter? Got a link to the info?

[Cuda]

Here's some info on the Toys for Tots run.

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114578&highlight=toys+tots

[ChromeGorilla]

Don't forget Miami in FEB, for the boat show and a run down to the keys... :yes: I already have the time off......:odie:

[Last Tango]

OK, well, December weekends belong solely and exclusively to my wife Nancy. She puts up with all the stuff I do all year long, but expects me to leave December for her choices. She is all about Christmas and holiday events and tours and concerts and yadda-yadda. And I am her slave in these endeavors from Thanksgiving Day to December 31.
However, I always attempt to go boating on New Years Day, it's always too cold for her on New Years Day, so I will select a warm-bodied escort for that first day of 2006. For now, I will probably do one more boating day by Thanksgiving, probably to a restaurant, probably with Tammy and Julie. Then December the boat goes on the trailer an gets its annual/100 hour inspection and those take time at this time of year. But I wanna be ready for Kick-Off (boating) on New Years Day.

[Cuda]

There's a group of us that do a New Year's Day Fun Run in Sarasota. Nothing organized at all, just show up, and run from the Hyatt to Mar Vista on NYD.

[Last Tango]

I'm only good for one severe beating per year on the seas of Sarasota Bay, and I save that for Mike's Hometown Gathering in October. I need a whole lot more boat than my Classic 18 to brave that body of water more than once a year. Every year since the beginning of his events there, I have attended. Every year the weather is spectacular, but the water is punishing. This year I did the "outside" thing and it was somewhat better than the "inside" thing. Problem is, either way you still have to deal with crossing the mouth of the bay. And if you are lucky to have easterly winds and choose to hug the beaches for protection, you then have to be careful of the sand bars and shoals, and then the mouth of the bay is massively treacherous. I'll save that for once a year, or maybe after I get a 45ZX.
Lake Harris and Lake Eustis, and Lake Dora, etc., is better if done twice a year, like the Wooden Boat Show in March and then again maybe in summer. I love those lakes. And lunch at the Crazy Gator.

[Cuda]

Mark, Sarasota Bay isn't that big. I've been across it more times in rough weather in my 18 CC than I care to remember. Now, Tampa Bay is a horse of a different color. :eek!:

[Cuda]

Mark, I just reread your post, you don't have to cross the mouth of Tampa Bay, Mar Vista is between Longboat Key and Anna Maria Island. It's pretty much protected all the way. Sarasota Bay is the biggest water involved.

[Last Tango]

Cuda,
You are absolutely correct. My bad for not distinguishing the difference between serene Sarasota Bay from Tampa Bay which is the nasty water I hate the most. I actually LIKE Sarasota Bay. And I missed the only event of Mike's that traveled south from the Hyatt instead of north. But I made up for that year by attending the SEADOGs impromptu, uninvited attendance at the dealers meeting that year. We went north that year, too. Sheesh.
Regardless, December is still Nancy's month, and I am not permitted to mix or camouflage a car event or boat event as a Holiday Touring event. She is wise to all my tricks of that nature after two years of dating in college followed by 36 continuous years of marital bliss. She is not easily fooled in these matters. She can smell a "track event" a mile away. She may still be naiive to many things in this world, but cloaking a car or boat event as something for HER, is not one of them. I will stand down in December and use that time to allow the boat to be serviced in preparation for the 2006 boating season, beginning January 1.
Besides, some of the things she drags me to during that singular month (such as the umpteenth performance of the Nutcracker, AND the Messiah, and the annual tour of Bed & Breakfasts in Fernandina and St. Augustine, and the tour of homes in San Marco, Riverside, Springfield, and the lighting of the trees etc in all surrounding 'burbs, plus two boat parades (these do not count as boating events because WE are not on a boat, the boats themselves are decorated in lights and travelling very slowly in front of our viewing station at the Symphony Hall, and SHE thought of this, not me, as I can easily pass on sailboats decorated with lights in the shape of Santa's reindeer and three fat businessmen yelling Merry Christmas) all provide sufficient fodder and ammunition to carry me well into June for car and boat events of a high frequency. She doesn't start the evil eye routine until October, but I press my luck all the way through November knowing that although running a defict at this time, I will begin to recoup my events sinergy and time in spades the day after Thanksgiving when I race the neighbors to get our outside lights up before them, and erect the Chritmas tree right before her child-like eyes, in the center of our library. Yes, it is a magical time for her... and not to be trifeled with in terms of the pacts and agreements we have silently agreed to as out lives progress together.
Boating and cars- 11 months.
Christmas Holidays - 1 month.
Seems fair enough to me.

[florida gator]

Is it a day run or overnighter? I would be interested in the NYD run.

[Cuda]

It's one day. There must have been 70+ boats last year of all types and sizes.