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Treasure Coast Outdoors

No Boat? Now Might Be A want to become a boat club are located by Shrimpers, in the Manatee Marina, 4905
I have belonged to this boat club for many years. They
member.
Good Time To Join A Boat Club The main disadvantages S.E. Dixie Highway, Stuart.
are that there are often Their website is https://premierboatclub.com/ and their
By Jim Weix minor maintenance issues phone number is (772) 220-1012.
Compared to owning and downriggers on offshore Last month I wondered if our local golden tilefish
a boat, boat clubs are a boats are often missing or population could handle commercial fishing. Since they
less expensive way to have in bad need of repair. This are nonmigratory, local populations are very susceptible
a boat to use. They are comes with the territory to overfishing.
also more convenient than when you have numerous The bad news is that a few commercial vessels were
towing a boat, launching it, people using a boat day after targeting these tilefish and local anglers were having
and then figuring out where day. trouble catching any. The good news is that if you try
to keep it. You don’t even The biggest hurdle for many people wanting to join a new areas, you will find some.
need to clean it when you boat club is often the initiation fee, which will be several Editor’s note: Jim Weix is an avid hunter, angler,
return to the dock. thousand dollars. After that, you pay a monthly fee, which conservationist, as well as an outdoor writer. Jim is
Another advantage is is normally very reasonable. included in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s Hall of
that you have a variety of boats that you can use. You The good news is that the pre-recession economy Fame for helping restore thousands of acres of wetlands.
can get a flats boat for skinny water fishing, a deck boat seems to be solving the initiation fee problem. I got an Jim is a broker associate with The Keyes Company. He
for taking the family out, or a bigger boat for offshore email on Oct. 20 from Premier Boat Club that they are can be reached at (772) 341-2941 or by email: jimweix@
fishing. You can also simply rent a boat if you don’t having a no-initiation fee promotion. jimweix.com.

Art Happenings from page 16 • Parents get support (including mental health planning officer, at (772) 320-0778 or gparris@hpsfl.org
counseling services) for children who have behavioral and or visit www.hpsfl.org.
Enjoy a meet and greet with talented calendar artists emotional challenges
Alene Sirott-Cope, Yolanda Luce, Kirsty Innis, Janet thanks to a loving
Kipp Tribus, Marta Elena Gonzalez, Susan Roberts, Susan learning environment
Clifford, Pam Patterson, Christine Grosso, Julia Kelly, fostered by Behavioral
Diane Raymond, Dan Mackin and Patrice Scott. Health Services. Adults
The major impacts Helping People Succeed have had are now being served
on the community include: through this program as
• Children go to bed at night free from abuse and neglect, well.
thanks to the Healthy Families program. Five hundred-plus • Adults with
families benefit from learning techniques that enhance disabilities participate in
parent-child interaction. the community through
• 4,500 families with newborns get guidance and learn work, volunteer and
to nurture and interact with their infants in a positive way, community activities
promoting healthy growth and development, resulting in thanks to the Community
school and life success through the Baby Steps program. Connections program.
• Adults with intellectual disabilities live everyday lives To buy tickets or Dale Forbes (center) presents his original painting titled Birds of the Tropics to Pinot and
as they find employment with local businesses, becoming learn about sponsorship Picasso committee members Laura DeBerard, Susan Clifford, Heidi Bosley, Bill “Boz” Bosley,
productive, taxpaying citizens through the Employment opportunities, contact Lee Borellis, Suzy Hutcheson, Mary Rose Bressman, Conchita Vallecillo and Glenna Parris.
Options program. Glenna Parris, gift Photo by Liz McKinley

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