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Yachting & Sportfishing in South Florida Style
~~~ “South Florida Style” ~~~
We welcome in 2023 with a full slate of boat shows, fishing tournaments, regattas and holiday boat parades!
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The Gulfstream Current runs close offshore to the storied Fort Lauderdale coastline. The water is warm and clear and teeming with baitfish and all kinds of aquatic big game. During the cold fronts of winter and early spring, the seas pick up to 8 to 10 feet plus and the sailfish go nuts.
“The Quest for the Crest”, Leg 2 of The Sailfish Challenge – the most prestigious sailfish series on the planet – takes place February 24 & 25 with the awards dinner and ceremony at Galuppi's in in Pompano Beach. This is part of the new Bluewater Movement’s Florida Sailfish Cup, a new statewide tournament from Fernandina Beach to Key West, which goes from November 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023. A $1,000,000 purse is being offered up, so get your gear ready, fuel up and head out!
For all ye sailors who love to race on the high seas, the 2023 Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race between the Lauderdale Yacht Club and the Key West Yacht Club is on for early January.
Go to www.keywestrace.org to sign up. Should be quite a party in Cayo Hueso for the participants who make it there with or without all their rigging intact. The 51th Annual Holiday Parade takes place DECEMBER 10, 2022 starting in the Downtown Area at 6:30 PM with a preshow of non-motorized vessels at 6:00 p.m. The Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade will stage on the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale, along the docks west of Stranahan House to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. The Parade starts at Stranahan House traveling East along the New River in Fort Lauderdale to the Intracoastal Waterway as it continues North to Lake Santa Barbara in Pompano Beach. It’s 12 Miles from the “Best Show on H20.” The Parade takes approximately 2 and 1/2 hours to view from one location (starting locations stagger as you travel north).
Private boats to the giant showboats and corporate megayachts will be adorned with hundreds of thousands of lights, music, entertainment, decorations, celebrities, musical groups, beauty queens, and many other exciting entries expected to be viewed by over one million spectators.
