Place to stay in the Keys

Happy New Year to all. My wife, 8 year old son and I are heading south from the deep freeze in Ontario next week. I was looking into renting a boat (sail, motor or house) for a couple of nights in the keys and thought someone here might have something. I wasn't looking to rent a charter, just something at the dock or on a mooring to use as a home base, fish, swim, etc. This would be better than a motel room so I thought its worth a look. If there are any ideas out there please let me know. Cheers, Mark Cosens S/V Estate Sail Cal 25

Mark, when you said that you were heading for the keys, I was picturing you in your sturdy Cal breaking ice thru the Great Lakes, Erie Canal, and south thru the frozen Hudson River, frozen intra coastal waters down towards the tropics. Apparently I got caught up in the story about the ice breakers stuck in Anartica and got lost in Google Land and me fantasy got the best of me. http://www.timbowden.com.au/2012/01/10/text/ And so it goes, Jerry On Monday, January 6, 2014 12:08 PM, Mark Cosens <ma… [at] markcosens.com> wrote: >Happy New Year to all. >My wife, 8 year old son and I are heading south from the deep freeze in Ontario next week. >I was looking into renting a boat (sail, motor or house) for a couple of nights in the keys and thought someone here might have something. I wasn't looking to rent a charter, just something at the dock or on a mooring to use as a home base, fish, swim, etc. This would be better than a motel room so I thought its worth a look. >If there are any ideas out there please let me know. >Cheers, >Mark Cosens >S/V Estate Sail >Cal 25 > > >

Wow, that'd be really cold. It is now -24C here and that doesn't include the wind chill which puts it to -37C! The Cal 25 is locked in her blocks. We will be sailing the Toyota to Florida. I sailed to Florida when I was 19 (25 years ago) on a 53' mahogany hulled DeFever Trawler. We left Toronto November 23! They were waiting for us before taking out the buoys in the Erie Barge Canal as we were going by them. At one point, while breaking through surface ice on the canal it got too think and we punched a 2" hole in the bow, had to lifted out to make temporary repairs (painted plywood epoxied over the hole) and keep moving south. Took 23 days to get to Fort Lauderdale. A great experience! Anyway, never made it as far as Key West and always wanted to get there. So my wife and I are taking our son to Legoland and going to relax in the sun with a few cocktails in the keys! Let me know if someone here has a place down there to rent (land or sea) for three days the end of next week. Cheers, Mark On 2014-01-06, at 5:09 PM, Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: > Mark, when you said that you were heading for the keys, I was picturing you in your sturdy Cal breaking ice thru the Great Lakes, Erie Canal, and south thru the frozen Hudson River, frozen intra coastal waters down towards the tropics. Apparently I got caught up in the story about the ice breakers stuck in Anartica and got lost in Google Land and me fantasy got the best of me. > http://www.timbowden.com.au/2012/01/10/text/ > And so it goes, > Jerry > > > > On Monday, January 6, 2014 12:08 PM, Mark Cosens <ma… [at] markcosens.com> wrote: > > Happy New Year to all. > My wife, 8 year old son and I are heading south from the deep freeze in Ontario next week. > I was looking into renting a boat (sail, motor or house) for a couple of nights in the keys and thought someone here might have something. I wasn't looking to rent a charter, just something at the dock or on a mooring to use as a home base, fish, swim, etc. This would be better than a motel room so I thought its worth a look. > If there are any ideas out there please let me know. > Cheers, > Mark Cosens > S/V Estate Sail > Cal 25 > > >