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USCG Credentialed Mariner, enrolled in a drug and alcohol testing consortium. Also new boater training and education. Captain for Hire!
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Doing mostly bareboat charters where you rent the boat and choose the Captain from a pool of licensed mariners.

07/08/2024

The best way to test your marine radio is with DSC (Digital Selective Calling). All modern marine radios have this. You enter the DSC number for The Coast Guard, and then you make a test call. They acknowledge and you know that your radio transmits and receives signals properly. It does not, however, test your analog microphone. You can use channel 9 for that, or maybe 13 or 68/69. DO NOT USE CHANNEL 16 FOR RADIO CHECKS!! Using channel 16 for a radio check could get you into trouble with the Coast Guard as well as The FCC.

03/08/2024

Had a really great charter on the books for today. A decision was made to cancel the trip. If you, as a Captain, knowingly take people out on the water during a tropical storm warning, and something happens to people or property, there is no defense. It is automatic negligence, or possibly even culpable negligence, to wit there is no defense or recourse. Ultimately, no insurance company will cover anything in terms of injuries to people or damage to the vessel. That whole burden of liability falls squarely on the shoulders of the Captain. Therefore, we made the prudent decision to cancel, and live to yacht another day!

01/08/2024

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01/08/2024

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23/07/2024

If you are new to boating, I'm here to help you!! Even if you are not new, I can still help! Its easy to see that many need help backing a trailer at the boat ramp. I can help you with that! Navigation and chartplotting? I can help! Docking? Yeah I can help you with that too. Rules of the road? Safety equipment? I got you! Anchoring - can be a challenge, I can help you with that too!! I don't claim to know everything, I'm still learning too. What I can do, is save you some of the bumps and bruises along the way that I have experienced from the school of hard knocks. We'll go out on your boat, and practice the things that you really need to know. What I can do for you is invaluable! Send me a private message, and lets get you seaworthy and in shipshape! I'm here to help you!!

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20/07/2024

The Skyhook in action

19/07/2024

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18/07/2024

Now an affiliate Captain on this 51’ Sea Ray “Decadence” in South Tampa. I’ll post a link to the boat when it comes live here in the next couple of days. www.anchorrides.com

12/07/2024

Mad Beach Party Charter

12/07/2024

I love an old school helm. I REALLY love this!
Joystick piloting rules! 2021 Aquila 36 Sport.

08/07/2024

Still processing the last seven days and the 4th of July holiday weekend. I work with some pretty great Boat Owners, Companies, and Captains. Teamwork makes it all happen. Owners that give you double shifts back to back, Captains that take your friends from out of town that are here on vacation, when you are already committed with other bookings. Had a marriage proposal one of the Mad Beach Party Charter boats. My FCC Marine Radio Operator licence came in handy, as I relayed a VHF distress call between The Coast Guard, and a vessel not under command, that had lost power and had run aground. That vessel could hear me, but not the Coast Guard radio transmission, I could hear them both. Both could hear me, thus the radio relay.
Had a 21st birthday party on Megatoon, a 35' x 15' luxury tritoon with two 200 hp motors on Saturday. The birthday girl wanted to go to the wildest and best party place, so I took them to the center sandbar at John's Pass, which was off the chain insane and crazy, to say the least! Three amazing yachts, Mad Beach Party Charter boats, Megatoon, and an orientation on a new to me 40' Sea Ray. Capped it all off playing drums with my band Den of Thieves at OCC Roadhouse for a benefit last night for my good friend Nikki J, who is very willfully and courageously battling cancer.
Overall, everything went extremely well, all things considered.
My Captain's log and diary is 12 pages long from the last seven days, single spaced new times Roman font lol. I need a nap!
Thank you Universe!

08/07/2024

06/07/2024

Smack dab in the middle of prime party time real estate at John’s Pass Sandbar on
THE INFAMOUS MEGATOON!

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Mercury Skyhook System

The Skyhook in action

Mad Beach Party Charter

Divorce Pass

The new cut on Northern Honeymoon Island between the Gulf of Mexico and the ICW, Dunedin, Florida

Water plane!

Ran this 50’ SeaRay today for the family that owned Sirata from 1961-2017.

Today I was honored to be Captain for the family that started, built, and owned The Sirata Beach Resort on SPB from 1961-2017. Super nice, down to Earth, and fun people!!