The Mako – BluWave I

BluWave Boat Rental’s first boat in the fleet was our 18’ center console offshore Mako 184CC with a 115 HP Mercury. This boat is a favorite, runs like a “sports car” and handles very nicely. It has a capacity of only 5 and is set up for fishing with a live well, 2 fish lockers…

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The Dolphin

Sorry for the delay in posting our blog… We had IRMA! We are happy to report that everything came through ok, in fact Tampa and Sarasota was very lucky, …again… at the last minute the storm took a right turn and went inland enough to prevent huge damage. We are hurting for those to the…

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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…