GL: Pahokee Marina

[Wade Ehlen]

Capt. Sterling:

   Where's Pahokee?

Wade Ehlen
Albin 36
New Bern NC

--- On Mon, 10/13/08, FloridaKeyz at aol.com <FloridaKeyz at aol.com> wrote:

> From: FloridaKeyz at aol.com <FloridaKeyz at aol.com>
> Subject: GL: Pahokee Marina
> To: capt.bill11 at verizon.net, great-loop at lists.samurai.com
> Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 1:47 PM
> Last nite, we did an overnite transiet dock at the new
> Pahokee Marina, just  
> to see what they have done to the newly reopened marina.
>  
> I was real impressed with the docks, all new floaing, the
> electirc and  water 
> hookups, pump outs on each dock finger, real impressive
> pool, and nice new  
> hurricane proof buildings.
>  
> Now the bad news.
> The town is scarry. I wold not leave the marina, or even
> the boat at nite.  
> The marina had 5 boats in 100 plus slip marina.
> that evening the marina got so rough, we left early.
>  Even though they have built 10 ft concrete walls around
> the marina  for wave 
> protection, the waves still get in and bounce back and
> forth against  the 
> walls. UNbearable.
>  And with those tall walls all around the marina, you feel
> like your  in 
> boaters prison, you have NO views of the lake, even though
> it is on three  sides.
> the laudry room is quite a hike away. All the buldings are
> aall empty,  there 
> are NO services available
> I wold not shop in town at the grocery store. .
>  
> It is sad, in a day when marina'a are going away,, a
> small town like  Pahokee 
> builds a multi million dollar
> marina, a gem, in a really really terrible location. With a
> location off  the 
> beaten path, in a town as scarry as pahokee, they won't
> have much of a  
> chance.
>  
> FWIW
>  
>  
> See you on  the Waterways!
> 
> Capt. Sterling
> _MV  Sterling Lady III_ 
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>  
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