Salli Squitieri/ Gabe Butterfield
09-01-2005, 06:04 PM
Somehow you all overlooked this section.
this was in all the letter we posted and no one took the time to read it--just criticize us and judge us. What a welcome.
This warm souled vessel is a 1921 43 foot 2-level pilot house Trumpy style Motor yacht. The vessel was built by E. Miles and a crew of Greek boat builders in Tarpon Springs Florida and the floor plan is the exact design of a Trumpy. We are told that he (E. Miles) purchased the design from John Trumpy and built this wood vessel constructed of Dade County Pine, Cypress and white oak as means to obtain his captain's license. the original name was Kanuk and this strong and majestic vessel remained in Tarpon Springs for 8 years. We visited Tarpon Springs and met 90 year old men who played aboard her and were brought to the site where she was built which is now a parking lot. From Tarpon Springs she went to Tampa and became Pom Pom after the prominent Cigar company.
She then traveled to Panama and to Cuba where she became a private dinner charter vessel geared towards couples. She later went to the Bahamas and served in the same fashion as a dinner charter vessel. she traveled the Intercoastal waters and needed up in Mc Gallister Georgia where she was named Cotton in Augusta--meaning Money in the bank, as if you had the leading crop of Cotton in Augusta you had prosperity--wealth. She later traveled throughout the Florida waters and raised girls upon her. One who we met Alice age 50 now told us many stories. She spent an extensive amount of time on the St. John River in Florida and was later owned by a dock master in West Palm beach. She was a commercial vessel along the eastern coastline of Florida and then harbored at Loralei Restaurant as a back country charter vessel.
She then arrived in Key West and was there for 14 years and we then found her. It was love on first sight and when we went aboard her and entered the state room it felt as though someone hugged us. It could be no other boat and this was to be our home-- a place that I could hopefully recover from illness. The love we feel for this vessel cannot be described.
She has had 13 owners including a Florida state senator, a doctor, a surgeon, a dock master, an author, and others and of course us involved in the arts, construction and music among other things.
this was in all the letter we posted and no one took the time to read it--just criticize us and judge us. What a welcome.
This warm souled vessel is a 1921 43 foot 2-level pilot house Trumpy style Motor yacht. The vessel was built by E. Miles and a crew of Greek boat builders in Tarpon Springs Florida and the floor plan is the exact design of a Trumpy. We are told that he (E. Miles) purchased the design from John Trumpy and built this wood vessel constructed of Dade County Pine, Cypress and white oak as means to obtain his captain's license. the original name was Kanuk and this strong and majestic vessel remained in Tarpon Springs for 8 years. We visited Tarpon Springs and met 90 year old men who played aboard her and were brought to the site where she was built which is now a parking lot. From Tarpon Springs she went to Tampa and became Pom Pom after the prominent Cigar company.
She then traveled to Panama and to Cuba where she became a private dinner charter vessel geared towards couples. She later went to the Bahamas and served in the same fashion as a dinner charter vessel. she traveled the Intercoastal waters and needed up in Mc Gallister Georgia where she was named Cotton in Augusta--meaning Money in the bank, as if you had the leading crop of Cotton in Augusta you had prosperity--wealth. She later traveled throughout the Florida waters and raised girls upon her. One who we met Alice age 50 now told us many stories. She spent an extensive amount of time on the St. John River in Florida and was later owned by a dock master in West Palm beach. She was a commercial vessel along the eastern coastline of Florida and then harbored at Loralei Restaurant as a back country charter vessel.
She then arrived in Key West and was there for 14 years and we then found her. It was love on first sight and when we went aboard her and entered the state room it felt as though someone hugged us. It could be no other boat and this was to be our home-- a place that I could hopefully recover from illness. The love we feel for this vessel cannot be described.
She has had 13 owners including a Florida state senator, a doctor, a surgeon, a dock master, an author, and others and of course us involved in the arts, construction and music among other things.