I've been a flight/helicopter nurse for almost 15 years. I work weekend nights and I look forward to Monday mornings when I get to catch up with you and decompress with your videos. I've been watching since the start and really appreciate your content and spirit! Keep up the good work. If my bucket list pans out maybe we can meet up around a fire on a beach somewhere. Thanks
It's always good to see y'all on a boat. Your eagerness for adventure and youthful energy and of course Jetty is the reason this old man watches your videos. Really excited to see how you do on this new cat that's being built. Take care.
16 years in Fort Myers (including Charlie) and this brings back some memories especially waiting for the wind (kiting) at Sanibel causeway & Colgate School for my sailing training (Fast Track to Cruising). Thanks.. from San Diego.
We love the Gulf Coast!! We have lived here for two and half years!! Thanks to watching your channel!! We moved to St Petersburg Florida!! Loving the boating life down here!!!! We are planning on taking our boat to the Keys this summer from Bay Pines Boat ramp. Thank you again for the great videos!!!!
Great video mostly because you two seem so happy! What have you been doing Billy to make Sierra so happy? Me thinks the wedding has a lot to do with it Love you two🇬🇧
I know odd to see a livaboard sized boat that can safely be careened on a beach with all the other boats sitting way in the background at anchor the 880 is looking like a hero
Captiva and Cuys are my favorite spots on the Gulf, Spent my life from a kid staying at Jensens cottages on Captiva, awesome old florida resort and we rent a skiff to run around the bay , My daughter and i never went to Cabbage key, after this video i regret that, Awesome fun video , seems like old times guys , Looking good out there, I Just Bought a 42' Chris Craft , doing refit in Hilton Head sc and will be motoring to west coast of Florida soon, it is home where i grew up and spent my days boating and sailing from a kid, from Tarpon Springs south to LongBoat key and love South Florida, finally getting back on the water, cant wait! My daughter sent you all a video of us at North Captiva Pass with a Dolphin acting like our long lost dog!
Great exploration. Looks like you're having a great time. Happy for you. On the bottles, often times you'll have to find the old dumps and dig for them.
Who knew the west side offers so many cool anchorages like Key West? Thanks for sharing all of this! Looks like it was a great trip! Can't wait to see you move farther south. Bummer about the drone - we have the same drone, and we'll look into insurance. Thanks again!
Welcome to our beautiful area! I’ve been following you for years and am super happy to see you be on this side! We live off of the Estero Bay and your going to love the area! Safe travels. ✌🏻
I have to say, the Corsair appears to very impressive...reasonable amount of space for short trips, can be beached, etc. The company made a great marketing decision letting you use it!
And their website appears to appreciate their effort, meaning they shows photos and videos of the lovely couple. I completely agree, this is a special new, beautiful upgrade to a funky boat company. I like how they are giving the greatness of a tri design and Corsairs trialability a boost with a gorgeous, fast looking design.
Problem is the price. You can get a new same size Beneteau for the same price. It would be hard to pick the less roomy and less comfortable trimaran for the same price. I do like the simplicity of it though.
Hello my fellow cruises I just left cabbage key through the Okeechobee I am now headed back to main on my trawler good to see you guys back I have not caught you on my algorithm evidently wonderful thing God bless Fairwinds
Grew up going to cabbage key on family trips to Boca Grande or tarpon fishing in the famous Boca Grande pass. The food has always been great but is definitely much more crowded today then it was a few years ago. Awesome place, was there just last month and sat at the same table.
Punta Blanca also had a schoolhouse on it which one of my uncles went to school there in the 50's. In the 70's, before the State took possession of it you could camp on it. Growing up my family and I camped on it many times. I have metal detected it over the years and found some cool relics and coins there. Cabbage Key does have great food and is reasonably priced and with my job I have gotten to know the owner. I have some cool videos on my channel of going there in a helicopter. One recent video, I mounted a Gopro on the outside of the helicopter. My first dollar bill I put in the restaurant was in 1984... yes, I'm old.
I love that area. Good place for a small sailboat with a swing keel. Unfortunately we had to cut our visit short last year due to the virus. Had to get back north.
Southwest coast of Florida is great sailing with the correct boat for shallow water. I use a Core Sound 17 which can sail in 1ft of water. I also use Hobie 12.0 with a sail on it too.
Have fun playing cards. I liked this video because you showed so much of what you were doing. I love your vids an looked like a beautiful place an lottsa fun✌🏻💗☺️❣️
Very nice. We should have been there about now, but our boat’s transmission went out and we are hauled out further north :-(. We will get there eventually! Glad to see you guys cruising again!
Cabbage Key used to be an old Florida hole in the wall bar. Back in the 80's I was a delivery captain and it was my go to stop on the way when I was coming across the Okeechobee and up to Tampa. It was just a bar and there was a parrot that walked up and down the bar and would knock your beer over if you didn't pick it up. Good memories.
Well we didn't end up playing cards that night, but it was a wonderful night just hanging out on Selah Way gabbing and chillin. Oh and a few drinks didn't hurt either!! Oh and by the way Billy, you had said you might try to do some kite boarding in the lagoon on the west side of Cato Costa. Well we went over there the next day and saw a very friendly 7ft gator just floating in the sun. Decided NOT to get my kite up. Maybe we'll catch up in Marathon. We are in Boot Key on SV Barefoot.
Unfortunately most bottle are going to be found inland closer to landfills forrest and ravines close to settlements. You may find some where there are freshwater runoffs from inland.
Guys I love the West Coast of Florida, i live in Largo. Im from Suffolk County NY. Now im a Floridian. Gulf Coast is way better than Atlantic Coast. I grew up on the South Shore of Long Island and i am hooked with West Coast of Florida.
I hope you do get a metal detector and start doing some exploring. The research into what was around generations ago is a very fun part of the hobby and would be fun to see you finding stuff in your videos.
I have no knowledge on searching for bottles along the beach.... but, if you can find an old homestead inland from the beach they will often have a dump hole where they threw things that would not burn in a firepit, such as bottles. In Oklahoma some of the OLD homesteads can be difficult to find and may only have a couple of flat foundation stones on the ground or more common will be some non native plants growing close to where the house used to be. Such as Iris or Easter Lilies. I'm not sure what would have been a popular plant in your area though.
I use to live in Vero beach in 78/79 and took many day trips to the west side of Florida and I liked it a lot......If I was to ever move to Florida again it would be somewhere on the west side for sure.
Holy cow sliding onto a beach in that much boat with no worries is a good demonstration of what the corsair can do. Whoever thought loaning that boat to you ,had a good idea, I bet the company is high fiving and printing out captain jetty glam shots on their boat
...you guys hit the nail on the head, Cayo Costa, Boca Grande and the surrounding area is what sold me on the West coast of FL...it's still somewhat less developed and rural than most other parts of the FL coasts...
Bottle hunting You use a fiberglass dowl rod with T that has a metal tip that is used in utilities and construction Just poke around till you hear tink tink then dig it up
Bummer about the drone! Last year I sank mine in an icy Colorado river. Luckily the water was only 2 feet deep so I pulled up my pant legs and went in after it. FROZE! Anyway, I found it, shook the water out and put it in front of the fireplace for a couple hours....AND IT STILL FLIES PERFECTLY! LOL
I remember going to cabbage key. Back when I was beginning when I was 11 years old. He had a little 16 foot with a 35 horse. We would take from the Estero river. All the way to cabbage key. It was going to get the $50 hamburger.good times.😁👍
I am from California, and Paradise was the town up the hill from where I lived that burned to the ground. Paradise has a whole different meaning to me these days. 75 % of my friends lost everything!
Love watching you guys on all your adventures! The next time you are home and would like to ride some awesome jetskis let me know 😀 I'm in Boynton Beach just south of you guys! Come on out.
You can't get good dill pickles south of the Mason-Dixon line I can assure you. Billy that burger looked excellent it appears that it didn't have the marks where the jockey was hitting it which is a positive. Jetty was cute sneaking up on the log....... She's the best! Good thing you have drone insurance! Loss of power or bad piloting??
Glad you guys liked the west coast of Florida. Ya know if you get on I-75 it will being you straight up to Michigan. I know it goes through Detroit but if you stop before you get there you can sail all the way over to Chicago. Keep the good stuff coming guys and above all have fun.
Check out Bahia Honda State Park anchor in front of the beach and on slack tide snorkel around we found dozens of Old Key West Coke bottles and all kinds of other bottles
Yes, very good drone, we call it the splash drone, by swellpro like you said. It also has payload release to fish with or drop a life preserver if needed
dang, i want one of those burgers, i was just telling my wife i want a good burger for dinner not long before you mentioned the burger. so i take that as a sign that i must get a good burger for dinner :)
I just want to buy an 880/ living on the east coast of se fla. The need for speed is there, n Bahamas etc is the way to go after what u r showing us. Nice job
FYI the plants @05:00 looked like Florida Swamp Lily or White Crinum (Crinum americanun). Looked like you had fun and nourished your souls exploring in this episode, hope DJI care came through with the drone. Thanks for sharing, cheers guys.
Manasota key here....if you don't have a pure sinewave inverter batteries will not charge correctly and you risk damaging most electronic devices particularly laptops
To find old bottle dumps the best place is to find old home sites and look for what we call a dump pits that’s where they would throw bottles and stuff they could not burn
You're unlikely to find bottles on the beach, at least whole bottles. As someone else said, you're better off finding a hundred year old dump on land that's starting to be worn away by the surf. There's one on the Hudson River at Croton Point Park.
Per Billy's comment about anchoring from only a single cleat and how a multihulled boat swings back & forth without a bridle, I've always heard that called "hunting" and that can be problematic. Sometimes a boat can jerk its anchoring hold loose that way…
I've been a flight/helicopter nurse for almost 15 years. I work weekend nights and I look forward to Monday mornings when I get to catch up with you and decompress with your videos. I've been watching since the start and really appreciate your content and spirit! Keep up the good work. If my bucket list pans out maybe we can meet up around a fire on a beach somewhere. Thanks
Glad to hear you're buddies with Sailing Soulianis : great YT channel and a great couple !
It's always good to see y'all on a boat. Your eagerness for adventure and youthful energy and of course Jetty is the reason this old man watches your videos. Really excited to see how you do on this new cat that's being built. Take care.
Tried to tell you guys a long time ago about the West Coast of Florida it is awesome this video is packed full of good stuff thank you I miss it🐝
I just like seeing Sierra's smile it reminds me to be happy and stress less about all the crap in our lives.... Now to go and work on our boat.
16 years in Fort Myers (including Charlie) and this brings back some memories especially waiting for the wind (kiting) at Sanibel causeway & Colgate School for my sailing training (Fast Track to Cruising). Thanks.. from San Diego.
We love the Gulf Coast!! We have lived here for two and half years!! Thanks to watching your channel!! We moved to St Petersburg Florida!! Loving the boating life down here!!!! We are planning on taking our boat to the Keys this summer from Bay Pines Boat ramp. Thank you again for the great videos!!!!
The sand bar you beached on is in Pelican Cove. A favorite anchorage for us too.
Great video mostly because you two seem so happy! What have you been doing Billy to make Sierra so happy? Me thinks the wedding has a lot to do with it
Love you two🇬🇧
I liked seeing you take full advantage of a shallow draft 👍🏼and the rest of the video was awesome too.
I know odd to see a livaboard sized boat that can safely be careened on a beach with all the other boats sitting way in the background at anchor the 880 is looking like a hero
Captiva and Cuys are my favorite spots on the Gulf, Spent my life from a kid staying at Jensens cottages on Captiva, awesome old florida resort and we rent a skiff to run around the bay , My daughter and i never went to Cabbage key, after this video i regret that, Awesome fun video , seems like old times guys , Looking good out there, I Just Bought a 42' Chris Craft , doing refit in Hilton Head sc and will be motoring to west coast of Florida soon, it is home where i grew up and spent my days boating and sailing from a kid, from Tarpon Springs south to LongBoat key and love South Florida, finally getting back on the water, cant wait! My daughter sent you all a video of us at North Captiva Pass with a Dolphin acting like our long lost dog!
Binge watching The Swiss family Robinson as a child definitely had an impact🤣
Great to see you in our familiar waters!
"You're so brave" You are just perfect, and super funny.
So glad you two are back to cruising life. Lovin’ it!!
Great exploration. Looks like you're having a great time. Happy for you. On the bottles, often times you'll have to find the old dumps and dig for them.
Awesome! You are back and yes.....missed your water adventures! Thank you!
Who knew the west side offers so many cool anchorages like Key West? Thanks for sharing all of this! Looks like it was a great trip! Can't wait to see you move farther south. Bummer about the drone - we have the same drone, and we'll look into insurance. Thanks again!
happy to see you to
Love Cabbage Key, have been there many times. We use to live in Fort Myers and we always took our visitors there. Enjoy Estero, you will love it.
Welcome to our beautiful area! I’ve been following you for years and am super happy to see you be on this side! We live off of the Estero Bay and your going to love the area! Safe travels. ✌🏻
Gloriousa lily's very fragrant flowers .
Now that's the boat life that I want to have. Maybe I'll be sailing next year.
So cute to see you both enjoying the boat life again.
So good to see Sea Beans... our boat is named Sea Bean and we live aboard her full time in the Med...
I have to say, the Corsair appears to very impressive...reasonable amount of space for short trips, can be beached, etc. The company made a great marketing decision letting you use it!
And their website appears to appreciate their effort, meaning they shows photos and videos of the lovely couple. I completely agree, this is a special new, beautiful upgrade to a funky boat company. I like how they are giving the greatness of a tri design and Corsairs trialability a boost with a gorgeous, fast looking design.
Problem is the price. You can get a new same size Beneteau for the same price. It would be hard to pick the less roomy and less comfortable trimaran for the same price. I do like the simplicity of it though.
@@SOLDOZER Like a sports car you give up room and comfort for speed. Few people drive sports cars.
@@seandelaney1700 You could live aboard the Bene, you cant really "live" on the 880.
Of all the exotic places you’ve been, it’s cool that you’re at a place I’ve been!
Hello my fellow cruises I just left cabbage key through the Okeechobee I am now headed back to main on my trawler good to see you guys back I have not caught you on my algorithm evidently wonderful thing God bless Fairwinds
Grew up going to cabbage key on family trips to Boca Grande or tarpon fishing in the famous Boca Grande pass. The food has always been great but is definitely much more crowded today then it was a few years ago. Awesome place, was there just last month and sat at the same table.
You guys are definitely at home on the water!!
Punta Blanca also had a schoolhouse on it which one of my uncles went to school there in the 50's. In the 70's, before the State took possession of it you could camp on it. Growing up my family and I camped on it many times. I have metal detected it over the years and found some cool relics and coins there. Cabbage Key does have great food and is reasonably priced and with my job I have gotten to know the owner. I have some cool videos on my channel of going there in a helicopter. One recent video, I mounted a Gopro on the outside of the helicopter. My first dollar bill I put in the restaurant was in 1984... yes, I'm old.
I love that area. Good place for a small sailboat with a swing keel. Unfortunately we had to cut our visit short last year due to the virus. Had to get back north.
Southwest coast of Florida is great sailing with the correct boat for shallow water. I use a Core Sound 17 which can sail in 1ft of water. I also use Hobie 12.0 with a sail on it too.
Have fun playing cards. I liked this video because you showed so much of what you were doing. I love your vids an looked like a beautiful place an lottsa fun✌🏻💗☺️❣️
Awesome video guys. Stay safe!
Thanks for posting and sharing. The restaurant looked like a cool hang out. Glad to hear that you are happy to be out and sailing again.
Very nice. We should have been there about now, but our boat’s transmission went out and we are hauled out further north :-(. We will get there eventually! Glad to see you guys cruising again!
Wow! What an awesome spot to stay the night. That’s so cool how you can park the boat right onto the beach. GreatVideo!
PeaceAndLove
Lori
Always good Vibes!👍😎⛵️👣🏖🐩
Cabbage Key used to be an old Florida hole in the wall bar. Back in the 80's I was a delivery captain and it was my go to stop on the way when I was coming across the Okeechobee and up to Tampa. It was just a bar and there was a parrot that walked up and down the bar and would knock your beer over if you didn't pick it up. Good memories.
Lol. Cheeky parrot.
Well we didn't end up playing cards that night, but it was a wonderful night just hanging out on Selah Way gabbing and chillin. Oh and a few drinks didn't hurt either!!
Oh and by the way Billy, you had said you might try to do some kite boarding in the lagoon on the west side of Cato Costa. Well we went over there the next day and saw a very friendly 7ft gator just floating in the sun. Decided NOT to get my kite up. Maybe we'll catch up in Marathon. We are in Boot Key on SV Barefoot.
Unfortunately most bottle are going to be found inland closer to landfills forrest and ravines close to settlements. You may find some where there are freshwater runoffs from inland.
I'm happy your back on a boat. Great video.as always.
Guys I love the West Coast of Florida, i live in Largo. Im from Suffolk County NY. Now im a Floridian. Gulf Coast is way better than Atlantic Coast. I grew up on the South Shore of Long Island and i am hooked with West Coast of Florida.
Thanks for sharing!
I hope you do get a metal detector and start doing some exploring. The research into what was around generations ago is a very fun part of the hobby and would be fun to see you finding stuff in your videos.
I have no knowledge on searching for bottles along the beach.... but, if you can find an old homestead inland from the beach they will often have a dump hole where they threw things that would not burn in a firepit, such as bottles. In Oklahoma some of the OLD homesteads can be difficult to find and may only have a couple of flat foundation stones on the ground or more common will be some non native plants growing close to where the house used to be. Such as Iris or Easter Lilies. I'm not sure what would have been a popular plant in your area though.
its 6 am and craving a cheeseburger, nice video guys
I use to live in Vero beach in 78/79 and took many day trips to the west side of Florida and I liked it a lot......If I was to ever move to Florida again it would be somewhere on the west side for sure.
Jetty at 16:15.... lolololol!
I’m coming that way I can’t wait
Bahamas... & burger !!!🐸
Holy cow sliding onto a beach in that much boat with no worries is a good demonstration of what the corsair can do. Whoever thought loaning that boat to you ,had a good idea, I bet the company is high fiving and printing out captain jetty glam shots on their boat
Good stuff. Welcome to our little part of the world. you will enjoy your trip all the way to The Keys.
...you guys hit the nail on the head, Cayo Costa, Boca Grande and the surrounding area is what sold me on the West coast of FL...it's still somewhat less developed and rural than most other parts of the FL coasts...
Love your boat life video’s also enjoy the truck and camper rebuild and camping ⛺️
Love cabbage key.
Beautiful- Beaches, Mangroves, Manatee, a Tortoise who came to visit...
Bottle hunting
You use a fiberglass dowl rod with T that has a metal tip that is used in utilities and construction
Just poke around till you hear tink tink then dig it up
Really good episode.
i like sierra's driftwood idea!!!!! can we add a few boats??????
Hey guys. Loved this one! Thanks
Pete
Bummer about the drone! Last year I sank mine in an icy Colorado river. Luckily the water was only 2 feet deep so I pulled up my pant legs and went in after it. FROZE! Anyway, I found it, shook the water out and put it in front of the fireplace for a couple hours....AND IT STILL FLIES PERFECTLY! LOL
I remember going to cabbage key. Back when I was beginning when I was 11 years old. He had a little 16 foot with a 35 horse. We would take from the Estero river. All the way to cabbage key. It was going to get the $50 hamburger.good times.😁👍
I am from California, and Paradise was the town up the hill from where I lived that burned to the ground. Paradise has a whole different meaning to me these days. 75 % of my friends lost everything!
I`m from Grass Valley originally.
Will be down there in 3 weeks!
Nice video thanks!
Love all you guy,s vedios
The most beautiful beaches are a hike to the north and west.....sugary white sand-emerald and sapphire waters
You both seem very happy
Very nice 🐟👍🏊
The 10 thousand islands are beautiful to explore if you are going that far! Enjoy!
Stayed on cabbage key, I hung a dollar bill in the restaurant. Neat place.
Love that area. North Captiva especially!
Love watching you guys on all your adventures! The next time you are home and would like to ride some awesome jetskis let me know 😀 I'm in Boynton Beach just south of you guys! Come on out.
You can't get good dill pickles south of the Mason-Dixon line I can assure you. Billy that burger looked excellent it appears that it didn't have the marks where the jockey was hitting it which is a positive.
Jetty was cute sneaking up on the log....... She's the best! Good thing you have drone insurance! Loss of power or bad piloting??
Jimmy Buffets sister has a good restaurant on the ICW in Gulf Shores, Alabama which used to be a fish packing building that’s easy to get to.
Keep up the fun time. ⛵
Glad you guys liked the west coast of Florida. Ya know if you get on I-75 it will being you straight up to Michigan. I know it goes through Detroit but if you stop before you get there you can sail all the way over to Chicago. Keep the good stuff coming guys and above all have fun.
Check out Bahia Honda State Park anchor in front of the beach and on slack tide snorkel around we found dozens of Old Key West Coke bottles and all kinds of other bottles
Enjoyed the video...Thank you for sharing.
Maybe you should try a waterproof drone, Spy+ by Swellpro. I've never used one but I've seen them in use.
Yes, very good drone, we call it the splash drone, by swellpro like you said. It also has payload release to fish with or drop a life preserver if needed
@@nelsonreau3842 A PFD, are you kidding? It might work.
dang, i want one of those burgers, i was just telling my wife i want a good burger for dinner not long before you mentioned the burger. so i take that as a sign that i must get a good burger for dinner :)
I live in Ft Myers a and Naples it is the best place in Florida I think. So many places to go by boat!
I just want to buy an 880/ living on the east coast of se fla. The need for speed is there, n Bahamas etc is the way to go after what u r showing us.
Nice job
Glad your back to cruising, I’ve watched from the start but haven’t really been that interested in the land based episodes
FYI the plants @05:00 looked like Florida Swamp Lily or White Crinum (Crinum americanun). Looked like you had fun and nourished your souls exploring in this episode, hope DJI care came through with the drone. Thanks for sharing, cheers guys.
Guys fla.has some great national ,state,local parks and preserves you can’t count them all
At 4:56 the plants look like native crinum lily or non native cast iron plants.
west coast of fla is considered the lee ward side of the prevailing winds
hence more protected and developed areas
Manasota key here....if you don't have a pure sinewave inverter batteries will not charge correctly and you risk damaging most electronic devices particularly laptops
Awesome! That burger would've gone great with some...Brass Monkey ;)
To find old bottle dumps the best place is to find old home sites and look for what we call a dump pits that’s where they would throw bottles and stuff they could not burn
Look up the splash drone, completely water proof
You're unlikely to find bottles on the beach, at least whole bottles. As someone else said, you're better off finding a hundred year old dump on land that's starting to be worn away by the surf. There's one on the Hudson River at Croton Point Park.
Love the new videos guys
Lovely video, no drama :)
Bottles in old garbage piles obviously... but also in old privy... (outhouse pits)
Per Billy's comment about anchoring from only a single cleat and how a multihulled boat swings back & forth without a bridle, I've always heard that called "hunting" and that can be problematic. Sometimes a boat can jerk its anchoring hold loose that way…
You can use drones as centerpieces.