‘Sports’ Archives
The heat is on and the fish are hungry in the 10,000 Islands
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com The Summer heat is here, and the bite is on! Day time air temperatures are now hovering around 90 degrees each day, which has now brought the average water temperature up to 86 degrees. Your best bet for fishing the shallow flats for the next few months will be early in the [...]
Ratings changes: Is it time to panic?
READ MY TIPS Doug Browne dbrowne912@aol.com Uh, oh, it is that dicey time of year where anxious tennis players find out if they are going to stay put or will stay on their current teams. If you are a CTA league participant, coordinator Vivian Welsh publishes her new list; a small percentage of players must adjust as they may either [...]
May fishing in the 10,000 Islands
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com May is typically one of our mildest months of the year. We look forward to calm days on the water now that those windy days of April are behind us. It is typically a dry month too, so there is not a lot of running away from those pesky afternoon thunderstorms that will be upon us next [...]
Under sail again to Saint Martin
CRUISING LIFE Frances Diebler hfdiebler@gmail.com We’re on the move again. After spending two months in the beautiful Virgin Islands, we finally sailed over to Marigot Bay, St. Martin, French West Indies. The Christmas winds were blowing for two whole weeks now and the sea state was rather rough. This next passage was a serious [...]
May is bike month 2012
PEDAL IN PARADISE By Matt Walthour MAYbe you should ride? It’s that time of year to celebrate the power of the bicycle, the freedoms, the opportunities to see things you may have never seen, to get healthier, and well, just to plain old ride your bicycle. The reason you may ask? It is because May is considered National Bike Month. [...]
Yes, even young Pete Sampras listened!
READ MY TIPS Doug Browne “Come on, you have to move your feet or it’s not worth our time,” I sternly remarked to my slow-moving teenage student. “Go, go, go, you can get to that ball,” I continued. One of the greatest coaching challenges is when the young student just doesn’t want to be on the tennis court. There is that [...]
Island Country Club final tennis results
By Coastal Breeze News Staff The final tournament of the Island Country Club 2012 Tennis season was contested last weekend. The Member/ Member Mixed Doubles Championship featured 10 teams playing in 2 divisions. A preliminary round robin event placed the competitors in a playoff for the Championship of either the A Combined 7.5 level or [...]
SPIRITUAL CYCLING
PEDAL IN PARADISE By Matt Walthour There are a lot of places in the world that one can think of which offer a very spiritual place to ride a bicycle. I suppose for the riders in the Tour de France it could be the Alpe d’Huez. I am sure for people who have ridden in California it could be riding along the Pacific Coast highway. [...]
VIRGIN ISLANDS I, A BOATER’S PARADISE
CRUISING LIFE Frances Diebler hfdiebler@gmail.com The British Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands collectively make up the whole of the Virgin Islands. They have separate governments. The US Virgins is a US territory while the British belong to England. The BVI’s, aka British Virgin Islands, are made up of about sixty [...]
Take the kids fishing, and keep them on the bite!
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com When we were children, my grandfather used to take my brother and me fishing all he could. Grandpa just loved to have us out on the boat. Sometimes he would take us out to the shallow reefs and we would drop live shrimp down on small hook. We would have a blast reeling in [...]
