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Joy (Stick) Ride to Key West Gallery

The whole thing started with a simple, straightforward question. I was standing under a chandelier at a cocktail reception at the Atlanta Boat Show, with a glass of Perrier in one hand and a toothpick-skewered scallop in the other, when Tom Duncan, Sea Ray’s ad agency guy, eased alongside and asked, "So Bill, if you have room on one of the long boat trips you sometimes do for the magazine, could
  • By Capt. Bill Pike
  • November 1, 2008

Zeus’s joystick control

Holding our Sea Ray 48 Sundancer on-station for photos in Key West Bightwas no problem, thanks to Zeus’s joystick control

Fold-up bikes rule! The author heads back from the local West Marine store.

Check it out. Key West is a long way from anywhere, literally and figuratively.

You can go NASCAR fast in Key West or Walden-Pond slow. Up to you.

Breakfast wasn’t bad at Marathon’s 7 Mile Grill on U.S.1 not far from our marina.

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