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OK, so your not hearing a lot of rock & roll now, chit is why we are out here, to get away from all that chit for a while, no noise, no traffic, no neighbors, only visitors we have are the ones we let on the Island, guess what our cold beer is still only a buck at the bar and a shot of Jack Black is too, and we close when the last customer leaves.
Relaxing after an off shore day long fishing trip, yep we got some Grouper, Snapper I guess about 150 lbs of them and caught a 6 foot Tarpon trolling on the way through the pass. The little lady getting the hug is the one that caught it. She almost lost it, couldn't hold it so Taz giving her the hug helped land it. It wore both of them out. There's gonna be a hell of a fish fry tonight.
"PHANTOM" a restored 53 foot Broward mahogany hull old school yacht. It was raised and sat in a boat yard until the engines froze and the paint was pealing off. One of the regulars at the Island, Bud Ambler owned "5-OClock Flights" an air taxi service between Florida mainland and the Bahamas, he donated an old unused hanger and we got the job to remove the old vessel and got paid for it. Three years later after a bunch of biker parties we had to get help restoring it she has been floating since and does the job with the two rebuilt CAT 350 diesels. Now we not only have Buds flight service but a Bahamas Charter service as well, we just merged.
The other is Buds boat a 53 foot sport fisherman with the same power set up, he renamed it "PHANTOM II" and now Island Trader Charters exists. Both vessels will well support 8 people at sea for 15 days, both equipped with water maker and freezer,. Electrical systems aboard fed by a 25KW generator, cruising range on both 1200 miles.
The old girl has to stay tied up on the mainland at Buds house, she draws to much water to dock at the island. No it didn't take a ton of money to get her, just a lot of hard work and many a talented brothers help over three years, everything on her was rebuilt, not replaced.
The Island crib, Gulf beach one side and the bay on the other, the old original house was built by my Grandfather and as his will stands it is passed to the oldest surviving son down the line but the whole family has it.
As close as we get to the mainland off the East point overlooking the bay and you see how crowded the beach is here.