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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Water Taxi From Marina Jack to Anna Maria Starts Tuesday

The water shuttle will offer free service on Mondays throughout February serving Anna Maria Island, downtown Bradenton, Palmetto, and North Longboat Key.

Here's your chance to cruise the waterfront for free. The Anna Maria Island Water Shuttle Service aboard the Island Pearl will officially launch Monday. And during the month of February the shuttle will offer free service on Mondays. During February the shuttle will offer service on Mondays and Tuesdays. On Tuesdays the regular water shuttle service (Bradenton to AMI / AMI Local Stops) will cost $5 one-way and $10 for a one-day pass. The shuttle will serve Anna Maria Island, Downtown Bradenton, Palmetto, and North Longboat Key. Beginning Tuesday the water shuttle will also offer excursion service along Sarasota Bay between Anna Maria Island and Sarasota’s Marina Jack. The fee for excursion service will be $10 for adults, $8 for children …

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Brenda Smoak

10:43 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013

Such an awesome idea - let's all go!   more ›

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Sarasota Mooring Field Shows $2,000 Surplus

Sarasota's pilot mooring field program is also offering free Wi-Fi to sailors who use the field.

If you build it, they will pay. Sarasota's bayfront mooring field is proving to be financially successful after a month of charging sailors for use.  The mooring field opened on Aug. 31 as part of a pilot program initiated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission along with an anchorage ordinance that prohibits vessels anchoring outside of the mooring field for more than 90 days. The mooring field is essentially a floating parking lot for boats to tie off to floating balls, reserving short-term and long-term spots. The anchorage and mooring field programs were designed to help remove derelict boats from the water creating hazards after tropical storms and hurricanes when boats routinely crash on shore. After two months of …

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Marina Jack, Bayfront Mooring, Anchoring Ordinance Adopted By Commission, City Anchoring Plans Draw Harsh Criticism, and 3 more ›

RAJ (Bo) McMerritt

2:07 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Betcha they find someplace for that $2000.00   more ›

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