The Gulf Oil Spill Help Center is America's leading advocate, and resource for victims, of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in Louisiana, and now tragically Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Now classified as Americas worst oil spill, and soon to be the worst US environmental disaster, the groups initiative is focused on business owners/victims already impacted by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and property owners who are now-or soon will be. The Gulf Oil Spill Help Center is saying, “our biggest worry is Louisiana property owners of recreational properties called fishing camps
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The Gulf Oil Spill Help Center Increases Its Victims Initiative For Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida Property Owners
The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission has passed a new boating safety education requirement this year that requires boaters to have a Florida Boat License in order to operate on state waters. The BoaterExam Florida Boating Safety Course & Boat License Test (http://www.boaterexam.com/usa/florida/) allows boaters to get certified over the Internet. Boating safety legislation is expected to reduce boating-related fatalities
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Florida Boat License Required This Year – Boating Safety Course Available Online at BoaterExam.com
June in the Florida Keys showcases many exciting events including a festival featuring underwater scavenger hunts, a diversity event that includes live music and parades, and a thrilling Father's day fishing tournament. To celebrate these events, KeysCaribbean Luxury Resort Villas & Marinas is offering three exciting reasons to enjoy the perfect vacation and save while in the Florida Keys this June: “The Longer You Stay in Paradise, The More You Save” special discount offers a lower nightly rate for each additional day booked; guests can receive a generous up to 50 percent off rates at all KeysCaribbean luxury resorts all spring season; and a free roundtrip airfare ticket.
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Jump Start Your June Vacation in the Florida Keys With Up to 50% Off at KeysCaribbean Luxury Resort Villas
We had planned to head up to the Berrys Islands for a week, exploring places we had not been yet, with Night Hawk. However, we received a weather report that made us change our plans. It appeared if we stayed we might have to stay longer than we had time for. We did not want to miss a good window to cross the Gulf Stream and if we stayed we faced a week of sitting out some strong NE winds. So we picked up our anchors a half hour after hearing the weather and left for the Florida. Night Hawk needed to return so that they can prepare their boat for storage, perhaps a week sooner than we had planned for Blue Bay. We had a little more time but if we waited we might not get a good weather window for longer than a week. We headed out with them from New Providence where we were anchored in West Bay. Direct Link
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S/V Blue Bay: Back in Florida @ Sail Blogs
I have never been any good at anything involving balance on one or two legs. I can ski and skate now, but when I was learning it was a real struggle for me to move past the “falling over every few seconds” stage. On my recent vacation in the BVI I went to a yoga class on the beach early one morning. I did OK except when it came to those poses involving balancing on one leg… there was much falling over and embarrassment and apologies to the instructor. Very strange.Some people like to stand up while they are sailing little boats like Lasers or Sunfish. Bonnie and a friend were doing it in Sunfish this weekend and you can see pictures of them doing it at the strangely titled i can has banana? or at least onion, sage, rosemary & thyme.Although it looks strange, it’s actually not too hard to stand up in the cockpit of a Sunfish sailing downwind in lightish winds. One of my friends in New Jersey used to teach kids to sail Sunfish by standing on the transom of the boat. That’s a bit harder; I forgot how he managed to avoid being swept overboard by the boom every time his students tacked. And my post from last year Eleven Crazy Things You Can Do on a Laser had some other strange tricks you can do while standing up on a Laser. Well, maybe you can do them. I can’t do most of them. As I said, I have terrible balance.Sailing coaches will sometimes make their classes sail standing up. Gary Bodie had us all sailing the boat standing up in front of the mast in very light airs on Cayuga Lake at a clinic there in 1995. And both times I went to Sailfit clinics with Kurt Taulbee in Florida he had a drill where we had to sail standing up. And not just in light airs or just downwind. He wanted us to sail closehauled in a fresh breeze standing on the side deck. Never did master that one. Much falling over and embarrassment and apologies to the instructor again. Very strange.Why do coaches make you sail a dinghy standing up? Does it actually improve your feel for the boat in the more conventional sitting down position? Does it make you more aware of heel or how to react to puffs? Or is it a good way to amuse (or torture) the class when the winds are too light to do much else?A friend whose sailing skills I admire even showed off by sailing out to the race course one day on Buzzards Bay while standing on one leg on his Laser. I bet he goes to yoga classes.But what earthly use is it to have this strange skill of being able to sail a Laser or Sunfish standing up? Sam Chapin did actually come up with one answer to this question in his post LASER SAIL IN LIGHT AIR yesterday. He had … Direct Link
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