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SOUTHWINDSNews & Views For Southern SailorsSOUTHWINDS Media, Inc.P.O. Box 1175, Holmes Beach, Florida 34218-1175(941) 795-8704 (877) 372-7245 (941) 795-8705 Faxwww.southwindsmagazine.come-mail: editor@southwindsmagazine.comVolume 14 Number 1 January 2006Copyright 2006, <strong>Southwinds</strong> Media, Inc.Founded in 1993 Doran Cushing, Publisher 1993-2002Publisher/EditorSteve Morrell editor@southwindsmagazine.com (941) 795-8704Associate EditorsStephanie Coxstephanie@southwindsmagazine.comLisa Hoogerwerf Knapp southwindsnews@aol.comBarbara Piercecruzcrossroads@yahoo.comAdvertisingSteve Morrell editor@southwindsmagazine.com (941) 795-8704David Curry davidcurry@southwindsmagazine.com (941) 761-0048Gary Hufford gary@southwindsmagazine.com (727) 585-2814Regional EditorsCAROLINAS AND GEORGIAWalt McFarlane waltmcfarlane@aol.com (912) 429-4197EAST FLORIDARoy Laughlin mhw1@earthlink.net (321) 690-0137SOUTHEAST FLORIDALisa Hoogerwerf Knapp southwindsnews@aol.comSOUTHEAST FLORIDA RACINGArt Perez miamiyachtracing@bellsouth.net (305) 380-0106Production Proofreading ArtworkHeather Nicoll Kathy Elliott Rebecca Burgangel@artoffshore.comContributing WritersRebecca Burg Gretchen Coyle Stephanie CoxDave Ellis Vern Hobbs Charles HusickKim Kaminski Mike Kirk Lisa Hoogerwerf KnappRoy Laughlin Walt McFarlane Art PerezBarbara Pierce Bruce Pierce DeeVon QuiroloGeorge Regenauer Morgan Stinemetz Rick WhiteKathryn WhiteheadContributing PhotographersJim Austin Rebecca Burg Dave EllisVern Hobbs Kim Kaminski Mike KirkLisa Hoogerwerf Knapp Roy LaughlinJean-Marie LiotBarbara Pierce Reef Relief George RegenauerCapt. Bill Robinson Capt. J. Michael Shea, JD Morgan StinemetzRick WhiteEDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: ARTICLES & PHOTOGRAPHY:SOUTHWINDS encourages readers, writers, photographers, cartoonists, jokers,magicians, philosophers and whoever else is out there, includingsailors, to send in their material. Just make it about the water world andgenerally about sailing and about sailing in the South, the Bahamas or theCaribbean, or general sailing interest, or sailboats, or sailing in some faroffand far-out place.SOUTHWINDS welcomes contributions in writing and photography, storiesabout sailing, racing, cruising, maintenance and other technical articlesand other sailing-related topics. Please submit all articles electronicallyby e-mail (mailed-in discs also accepted), and with photographs, if possible.We also accept photographs alone, for cover shots, racing, cruisingand just funny entertaining shots. Please take them at a high resolution ifdigital, or scan at 300 dpi if photos, or mail them to us for scanning.Contact the editor with questions.Subscriptions to SOUTHWINDS are available at $19.95/year, or $37/2years for third class, and $24/year for first class. Checks and credit card numbersmay be mailed with name and address to SOUTHWINDS Subscriptions,PO Box 1175, Holmes Beach FL, 34218-1175, or call (941) 795-8704.Subscriptions are also available with a credit card through a secure server onour Web site, www.southwindsmagazine.com. SOUTHWINDS is distributed toover 500 locations throughout 10 Southern states. If you would like to distributeSOUTHWINDS at your location, please contact the editor.<strong>Read</strong> SOUTHWINDS on our Web site,www.southwindsmagazine.com.8 January 2006 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com
LETTERS“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”H.L. MenckenIn its continuing endeavor to share its press, SOUTHWINDSinvites readers to write in with experiences & opinions.MARATHON CONSIDERS PRIVATIZING BOOT KEYHARBOR: HOW ABOUT A GATED KEYS?Do you agree, to make an informed decision, people shouldbe educated about the decision they are to make? Do youknow how tight affordable housing is in Marathon? Do youfeel the harbor is a nice asset?Did you know the people living in the harbor are theones working on your homes, serving your meals, workingon your cars and boats?Do you know, as developers gobble up Keys properties,there’s less room for affordable housing? Even the sheriffstated he “has to hire below-standard deputies.” Now theschools are allowing people with only GEDs to teach ourchildren. Because of little affordable housing. Many arelooking for ways to have affordable housing in Marathon.If a family’s annual income is less than $34,000 a year,where can they live? Some say let them leave. What theyoverlook is these people are our laborers, auto mechanics,day care workers, teachers, roofers, plumbers, etc.The University of Florida’s Florida Sea Grant Study,(www.bootkeyharbor.com/FlSeaGrantLiveaboards.pdf),hailed as one of the best studies conducted regarding theFlorida Keys, stated, “Limited land and raising land pricesgave the push towards using the water as housing.”Recently, a city official told me, “I do not need a studyto tell me what the liveaboards spend, and that they are anintegral part of our workforce.”Maybe this official doesn’t need a study, but when peoplehaven’t received the facts, they don’t understand. Itappears the city is afraid to educate the citizens of Marathonon the reality.They talk about building company housing for employees,thereby, effectively creating indentured servants. If, forsome reason, the employee loses his job, his family is nowhomeless. Is that really the character of the citizens ofMarathon? Do we really want sub-standard teachers? Dowe want sub-standard deputies?The University of Florida’s Florida Sea Grant Studyprovides the information needed for the city of Marathon toperform its own study. But is it doing it?Again I ask for someone to make an informed decision.Shouldn’t they be educated about the decision theyare to make?Don’t the citizens of Marathon deserve the truth? Don’tthe citizens of Marathon deserve to see the facts, and notjust hear words from some developer or politician?Jim LowryMarathon, FLJim,Right on.This letter is in response to the anti-liveaboard feeling thathas been growing in the Florida Keys. Marathon is currently consideringprivatizing the Boot Key Harbor anchorage. Many see itas one more step in a series of anti-liveaboard policies. Many whocannot afford to live in the high-priced land-based community ofthe Keys are the workers of the area who supply services to thewealthier landowners. They are liveaboard cruisers, a group whohas been in the Keys long before the wealthy discovered it. TheseSee LETTERS continued on page 10News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS January 2006 9
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