2/16/2005
Tim and I arrived at the Winterhaven hotel in the morning after a great flight on Jet Blue. The Winterhaven is a very nice hotel in the middle of the Art Deco district of South Beach. The rooftop sun deck is very nice. Tim and I hit the beach after a sumptuous lunch in the quaint Espagna street collection of alfresco restaurants. We ate at the Hosteria Romana and the food and drinks were wonderful.
Tim and I arrived at the Winterhaven hotel in the morning after a great flight on Jet Blue. The Winterhaven is a very nice hotel in the middle of the Art Deco district of South Beach. The rooftop sun deck is very nice. Tim and I hit the beach after a sumptuous lunch in the quaint Espagna street collection of alfresco restaurants. We ate at the Hosteria Romana and the food and drinks were wonderful.
After lunch we headed for the beach. It was a beautiful day with the temperature about 83 and the ocean water about 74. We had a swim and enjoyed people watching. There were some beautiful women walking the beach and the beach was also topless if you wish. That was interesting.
After the beach, we retreated to the rooftop lounge area with a cocktail and admired the setting sun.
All in all it was a good day. Tomorrow starts the boat show which is why we are really here! Sure!
Captain Al Lorenzetti and Tim C. Smith
All in all it was a good day. Tomorrow starts the boat show which is why we are really here! Sure!
Captain Al Lorenzetti and Tim C. Smith
This is a shot of Espanola Way which is just a couple of blocks from our hotel. It is very pretty and quaint with excellent restaurants. It is a real get-away from the busy streets of the city of Miami. You can have an excellent meal or just sit back and relax with a cocktail or glass of wine and do some people watching.
The Miami boat show is really quite a big event. The Convention center is huge with hundreds of boats and vendors. This is the outside area with more boats and a tent pavillion for other vendors. Just about every product you can think of is on display and for sale.
What is really great about the show is that you can talk directly to the manufacturers and/or owners of the company. The upper left image is me with Cathy Johnson the owner of StowMate. This company manufactures various storage units that can attach to t-tops or other such places on a boat.
The upper right and lower left images were taken at the Lowrance booth. I was talking to Kent who is an engineer that works at the company headquarters. He was explaining to me all of the incredible new features of the NMEA 2000 technology for networking data for display on the new generation of Lowrance machines. Especially interesting is the new LCX-111c HD sonar/chartplotter. This machine has a 20GB built in hard drive. This allows for extremely detailed cartography.
On the lower right I am talking to Mark Ingram of Lee Fischer International about the submersible bait attracting light. I am going to give one of these a try this coming season. I get all my cast nets from Lee Fischer and they are excellent.
The upper right and lower left images were taken at the Lowrance booth. I was talking to Kent who is an engineer that works at the company headquarters. He was explaining to me all of the incredible new features of the NMEA 2000 technology for networking data for display on the new generation of Lowrance machines. Especially interesting is the new LCX-111c HD sonar/chartplotter. This machine has a 20GB built in hard drive. This allows for extremely detailed cartography.
On the lower right I am talking to Mark Ingram of Lee Fischer International about the submersible bait attracting light. I am going to give one of these a try this coming season. I get all my cast nets from Lee Fischer and they are excellent.
One of the best things about the Miami Boat show is the
selection of products.
We will be updating and re-outfitting the camera boat this spring so I have been looking to replace my leaning post seat. We ran in to a fabricator “Smitty’s” that has the largest selection and options of leaning posts I have ever seen.
selection of products.
We will be updating and re-outfitting the camera boat this spring so I have been looking to replace my leaning post seat. We ran in to a fabricator “Smitty’s” that has the largest selection and options of leaning posts I have ever seen.
The Miami Boat Show is one of the largest in the world. This is the view from the Skywalk and it is only one small part of the show. Every boat imaginable was on display at the Miami Convention Center. There were also two other venues of in water boats, one for power and one for sail. There were vessels up to 165 feet and worth $25 million that were open for viewing.
This is Don G. Cornish of the Bahamas Tourism Office and a couple of his fishing buddies and guides from the islands. I have made a number of trips to Andros Island fishing for bonefish, tarpon and permit. We swapped stories about some of the people we know from the islands. Of course Rupert Leadon of the Andros Island Bonefish Club came up in conversation. The Bahamas offer some of the greatest flats fishing and bluewater fishing in the world. Each of its islands is unique and a paradise unto itself. Most tourists only visit Nassau (New Providence) the capital of this island nation and miss out on many of the other great vacation and fishing opportunities in the Bahamas. The people of the Bahamas are laid back and very friendly. I think it is time for me to take another trip to the Bahamas.
This is the Accurate Fishing Products display. These are super smooth twin drag reels. I use the Boss 870 for live baiting big striped bass. This year the smaller reels have the addition of a spool tension adjustment knob on the left side plate to prevent backlash when casting.
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