The Honda Motor Company is known for making some of the finest cars, motorcycles, and power equipment money can buy. The Japanese industrial giant officially entered the aviation business when it established the Honda Aircraft Company in 2006.
Several boats participating in the 2016 Sail to the Sun ICW rally found bridge heights to be more of a concern than the waterway’s notorious shoaling.
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It was during the St. Pete Boat Show of December, 2011 that Katy and I met Michael Eldridge. He was in the US Air Force and I was an Airline Pilot. We met on a new 2011 Jeanneau Yacht when he asked me if I could help him find his first Sailing Vessel and teach him and his wife to sail. She was still serving our country over seas and he wanted to surprise her with their first Sailboat. I recall thinking to myself almost five years ago,“Maybe he would buy a new Jeanneau from me…down the road.” In addition to being at MF displays, look for our welcoming booth at St. Pete Boat ShowIn less than a week, we were able to achieve his first sailboat goals with a near perfect 2007 Catalina 309 that was so clean that you could eat sushi right off the bottom of the bilge. We made an offer that was accepted and by the end of the month he and his wife, just home from overseas, were proud sailboat owners.
James taught the proud owner, Todd, how to use his brand new FMY37 while delivering it from the St. Petersburg charter base to the filming location in the Bahamas. James and I had the pleasure of bringing the MY37 back across the Gulf Stream in high seas just in time for the 2016 Miami Boat Show. This 37′ power cat could fly, and she handled the heavy seas just as she and her sailing sisters were designed to, with safety and performance at sea.
Captain Paul Valentic is no stranger to high performance and depending on his vessel when conditions are extreme. Whether in the cockpit of his USAF F-15 or Southwest Airline’s Boeing 737, or his newly-keeled 2017 Fountaine Pajot LUCIA 40, Captain Paul is happiest at the controls. He and his loving wife, Terry, fell in love with the dream of sailing the deep blue sea and with Fountain Pajot’s newest addition to their fleet of ocean cruising catamarans – the LUCIA 40.
