BluWave Boat Rental

The Manatee

The second boat in our series is the Manatee. BluWave Boat Rental has an 18’ Carolina Skiff 178DLV center console boat with a capacity of 9 people we have named the Manatee. This boat has a 5” Lowrance GPS and fish finder/depth gauge, 2 livewells, pole holders, a leaner seat at the helm, all the…

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The Turtle

The next few blogs are going to be a combination of Wildlife information and the corresponding information on our boats with the same names. We will start with the smaller boat we have named Turtle at BluWave Boat Rental, which is a 2015 Carolina Skiff JVX18. This is a flats-fishing boat that has a capacity…

The Lightning Capital of the World? North America? The US?

Bluwave Boat Rental: Why are lighting strike fatalities so high in the area? First, our quick weather lesson… Thunderstorms produce lightning. Thunderstorms are generally large cumulous cloud formations formed when warm humid air moves upward into cooler air, condensing and creating updrafts that grow the cloud quickly and becomes full of vapor that when cools…