Monday, March 31, 2014

Journal Entry 033114-A: Battleship Marine!

Friends,
 
I first would like to invite you to visit Battleship Marine here in Fairhope, Alabama!
 
I hope your weekend went well my friends.
 
I had the opportunity to go lay on the Fairhope, Alabama beach and get some Sun.
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Thank God I didn't stay any longer than I did for Christ Sakes but I sure enjoyed laying on that beach listening to the wind, waves, gulls and geese in the background not to mention all the people on the beach having a great time themselves.
 
I had an argument with my boat earlier in the day but we made up when I got home and I took her on down to the Pier Street Landing after my late lunch, vitamins, tramadol and a sertraline for a little test of the waterpump and the carburetor's.
 
I just backed my baby down in the ramp and tested the engine right there on the trailer!
 
I have most likely a gummed up low speed jet on my Evinrude but she passed the high speed jet test and the waterpump test.
 
I have fender work to do on the trailer- they need re-bolting but it passed the hub heat test. I always test my wheel bearings by grabbing the hub after a short ride.
If you feel any heat you have a problem.
 
I think I'll wait until tomorrow to tell a short-story.
 
I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order.


Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marines web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you!

Please Visit Battleship Marine I would sure appreciate it yall!
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
  
God Bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge!

Floyd Clifton Wooley
 
 
 
 
*I hope you like the red shutters? I started to take a friends advice and go with green on the right for Star-board but I decided I might do that later. It is a great idea she had. I thought I would stay with the Red to square the store up for now. I sure Like the Port and Starboard Idea.
 
 
 

Friday, March 28, 2014

Journal Entry 032814-A: Battleship Marine!

Friends,
 
Today's Short Story will be about the time "The Big One" got away!
 
First I would like to invite you and your family to Battleship Marine!
 
One Sunday on one of my mother and dad's weekly trips out in the Gulf of Mexico on board the Mermaid a 1957 38' Chris Craft Constellation with me as well on board in the mid to late 70's the big one got away in a most physically painful way for my mother.
 
We were trolling two lines on a southerly heading south of Sand Island Lighthouse in the Mobile Ship Channel with my mother and I on the stern.
 
The water was slick as glass.
 
I'm sure it was August!
 
My dad stepped back to the stern to playfully give my mom a kiss when the rod she was holding blew up from the hit of a fish that was absolutely unbelievable!
 
My dad raced back to the helm as my mother tried to slow the fish down!
 
The Penn Reel had 100# test Dacron line a steel leader three feet long with a triple hook yellow and white sea-witch that was custom made to hold any fish!!!
 
The Rod A 6' Heavy Action with Rollers that were oiled and free!
 
The Reel a Penn Long-Beach #67!
 
My mother eased the drag tighter and tighter as my dad brought the twin 350's to neutral.
 
She tightened that drag some more!
 
I swear there was smoke coming off the drum of that Reel!
 
The reel singing as the line speed off off the drum!
 
My mother eased the drag all the way shut or tight but the monster on the other end never slowed!
 
In desperation to stop the fish my mother grabbed the Dacron line with both hands screaming for the fish to stop!
 
My mother never gives up!
 
I was in shock as I watched my mothers gallant effort to stop that fish while screaming in pain as the line burned her fingers to the bone and then all of a sudden the line snapped!!!
 
 
The three of us in shock my dad distraught almost to tears and mother in physical agony from the pain in her hands!
 
All I can remember hearing other than that was the sound of those engines as the boat slowly lifted up and down in the almost calm sea and the exhaust dipping under the water muffling the sound then lifting out of the water and the volume raising with the stern!
 
Her Penn Reel and Rod is in the photo and will never be sold!!!
 
That was a day I will never forget my friends!
 
I hope you enjoyed the story my friends!
  
I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order.


Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marines web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you!

Please Visit Battleship Marine I would sure appreciate it yall!
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
  
God Bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge!

Floyd Clifton Wooley
 
 
 
 
My Mother Carol Wright Wooley's Penn Reel and Rod! 

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Journal Entry 032714-A: Battleship Marine!


Friends,

How can I follow up yesterdays short story and invite you to visit Battleship Marine with any success?

Friends I had a helluva vacation once in my life with Greg Jones of Alabama Outboards family and my wife and children as well as the family of another friend and his family at Little Lagoon in Gulf Shores, Alabama!

Friends at the time I lived in Spanish Fort, Alabama in a Mobile home that my wife and I had rented from Lonnie and Rhonda Jones.

I had just started working for Dobbins and Dukes Homes after closing the Original Battleship Marine!

I at the time owned a 16' Glasstron Bow-Rider with a 40 Horse-power Evinrude that the Starter Mounting Bracket had broken off the engine block.

I didnt have a dime to fix the engine properly so I J B Welded the broken piece back onto the block.

Not a good idea.

Lonnie Jones friend had two Jet Ski's and they had rented a cabin on Little Lagoon.

I of course took my Glasstron and we spent the night in the cabin.

I insisted on launching my boat and what a mistake thar was with the starter epoxied on the engine block!

It cranked the first time when we launched and eased around to little lagoon pass bridge but when we got ready to leave after I had drank a fifth of Seagrams 7 all hell broke like it always does when you get drunk on a boat.

The day had been exciting as you could want a day to be!

Lonnie and I went out the pass and the Gulf was angry as it can be without there being a tropical depression or stronger in the Gulf!

The breakers at little lagoon were at least six foot!

We were jumping the breakers and of course I had to out do Lonnie!

I took the jet ski I was riding higher and higher into the air hooping and hollering the whole time with the building excitement of the adrenaline rush!

The final time I jumped to my recollection I went as vertical as possible sky high into the air!

I landed about twenty feet from the jet ski and she was leaving me!

I looked around and didnt see Lonnie and as fast Ive swam in my life I chased that jet ski!

The whole time thinking "damn I'm way out here with the damn sharks for God Sakes!!!!

The water was crystal clear and having hollered "watch this Lonnie" prior to my last jump was the last thing on my mind"!

I caught the damn thing climbed on board and headed for the pass only to have to deal with the starter now hanging free under the callon of my evinrude!

I hit the key and immediately knew I had a problem!

I tried cranking the engine with the rope under the callon as I cussed the SOB!

Never drink on an old boat or a damn new boat it only ends in disaster I assure you!

After the rope hit one of my children coming off the fly-wheel which was unavoidable even with them on the bow Lonnie or his friend who has now passed from a massive heart-attack and I beleive is heaven pulled us back to the launch with a jet ski!

The boat didnt leave the trailer again until I bought a half a block from Ferrell Hamlin and rebuilt the engine when we moved to Silverhill, Alabama on an old Stainless Steel table that kept covered up outside behind the house with a tarp during winter and spring of the next year!

The one and only outboard motor I have ever re-built!

Only Ferrell beleived it would ever run again and of course I did beleive it would run again myself!
 
I hope you enjoyed the story my friends!
 
I finished painting the door today. I hope you it looks nice too you. Stop by and see me. I only drink once or twice a year now and only two drinks. Three is too much! I'm serious.
 
I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order.


Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marines web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you!

Please Visit Battleship Marine I would sure appreciate it yall!
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
  
God Bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge!

Floyd Clifton Wooley


Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Journal Entry 032614-A: Battleship Marine!

Friends,
 
I think I will stick with the story or adventure that I mentioned in yesterdays post.
 
Friends when I was 14 my parents bought me a 14 foot Sears Game fisher Jon Boat for my birthday on April the 14th.
 
I may have been 12 or 13 because I also got oars and oar locks with the boat.
 
It may have been a year or so later when I worked the summer washing windshields for fifty-cents per hour to buy my first outboard motor from Mr. Stauter at Stauter Boats across the street from my parents Exxon Travel Stop on Battleship Parkway!
 
I loved my little four horse 1976 Evinrude. My Jon Boat would fly!
 
I used to take it out in the bay and when the wind was out of the south-east and the chop was up run the boat as fast as she would go into the wind!
 
Talk about fun! She'd come clear out of the water and crash down into the waves!
 
One day I was trying to get her as high as in the air as possible and a gust of wind caught her and man did she fly!
 
She flew straight up in up in the air and right back upside down in the water!
 
I thought the water was over my head but think God it wasn't.
 
I didn't have a kill switch. I killed the engine as we sailed over backwards!
 
I was only short distance from the boat so I swam over too it and in four feet of water I flipped the boat over then followed the fuel line down to my three gallon tank sitting on the bottom and picked it up put it in the boat grabbed my gear not so much in that order climbed back in cranked her up and off I went again!
 
I told my dad it was an accident!
 
Hell I did it every time I went out in the boat but I did move the tank to the bow!
 
The fun I had on Hollingers Island in the summer-time!
 
The winter time too but oh the summers!
 
I started painting the door to the store today. Do you like the darker color?
 
I hope you enjoyed the story my friends!
 
I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order.


Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marines web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you!

Please Visit Battleship Marine I would sure appreciate it yall!
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
  
God Bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge!

Floyd Clifton Wooley

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Journal Entry 032514-A: Battleship Marine!

Friends,
 
A Short Story!
 
The year was approximately 1986 or 1987!
 
My Old Room-Mate after my first divorce from when I lived at what was then Harbor Landing Apartments at Dog River Bridge and I decided to fishing!
 
Julio and I would have quite the day in my old red and white boat with a rotten keel cable and pulley steering with a 100 Horsepower 1962 Johnson Outboard hung on the back of the rotten stern- literally!
 
I'm not sure how we got the trailer to Dauphin Island but we did get it too Dauphin Island where we launch the old boat!
 
At Billy Goat hole my friends of all places! If you have launched there you understand the congestion.
 
I had three or four gas tanks in the boat to feed the old Johnson and she purred like a kitten!
 
Julio and I headed out Billy Goat Hole into a stiff easterly breeze and bow to stern boat traffic. A heavy chop loomed ahead for me to see!
 
I waved at the Coast Guardsman standing on the dock at the Dauphin Island Coast Guard station as we passed heading east toward the jettied pass.
 
Then all Hell broke loose!
 
Then damn old wire coated cable steering broke for God Sakes! I think in retrospect it slipped out of a clamp.
 
The boat instantly turned due South into the rock sea-wall only a few yards away! It was only a few feet for Christ Sakes and the bow was up as high as I could have it without planning off. Yall it was most likely 1/4 throttle that damn boat probably would run 60 mph but who knows! I was trying maintain idle-speed only and at some point coming out of that pass you have to put the bow up on a small boat!
 
I told Julio hug the damn the engine and turn turn it straight into the waves ****** now man or were gonna die!
 
He cussed me back but I don't know what he said as I said "turn that damn engine til I'm straight in the waves so I control the damn throttle!"
 
There was much more instruction and to Julio's credit he did as I asked or we would have been in the water on the barnacles. I never have climbed a slimy, barnacle covered sea-wall. I hope I never have too!
 
What I was trying to do was keep us off the rocks at speed into those waves until a boat could pass us so I could have Julio turn us around behind the next boat and with me at the throttle he wouldn't be thrown out of the boat!
 
I operated Hydraulic Horizontal Foundation Drilling Equipment at the time and I had already flipped my Jon Boat as a child. A steady experienced hand at the throttle was my first thought!
 
We turned around and I never had the chance to look the Coast Guards way but we anchored in Billy Goat Hole and fixed the cable.
 
I always carried my tool box with me!
 
After fixing the cable we fired the old Johnson with Electric Gear Shift in the foot and push button forward, reverse and neutral up and headed back out the pass waving at the Coast Guard as we passed.
 
I wanted to salute em for not putting me jail!!!!!
 
It was rough as hell east of Fort Gaines that day but we made the arc around the Fort and headed west.
 
No radio. No fish finder. Hell I don't think we had a paddle. Damn sure had no kill switch.
No fire-extinguisher. No life jackets on and no cell phone that I recall!
 
Many times you don't have time for the damn Cell Phone especially not NOW! A smart-phone will get you killed out there in that Gulf!
 
We ran on down west and passed between Sand Island and the Dauphin Island Pier and South-East-
Looking for birds.
 
We found the birds and put a few Spanish in the Boat a little further out from the beach and we put a king in the boat! Maybe Two.
 
Every time we went over a wave I could see the wave coming down the keel! Rolling right along!
 
I'm not sure if Julio knew what that meant but I did and we went on further out and then all hell broke loose again!!!!!
 
I reached back to change fuel tanks in the 15' Boat knelling on one knee as Julio steered us into the swells!!
 
Trolling for fish all the while.
 
I pulled the only fuel fitting I had off the tank fitting and damn!!!
 
The spring loaded ball popped out and landed on top of a swell a few yards from the boat!!
 
My jaw dropped!!!!!!!!!!
 
I looked around real quick to see if anyone was looking but we were down in the trough of a swell!
 
I pulled out my pocket knife cut the old fitting off and stuck the hose in the next tank just before the engine quit and we got side-ways in those damn swells and capsized. It would have surely happened my friends cause I knew that boat. The old girl just wasn't up to being dead in the water sideways in that high of a swell!
 
I had an Anchor but did I have enough rope to keep the bow up?
 
My friends another reason I never change fuel tanks in boat traffic or a narrow angry pass!
 
I pumped the bulb and the old gas guzzling honey kept purring like a kitten.
 
Sweat pouring off my nose!
 
I told Julio "Hand me another Budweiser Man"!
 
We proceeded to fish!
 
Julio and I landed a couple of beautiful Jacks and by then I was so drunk we headed back to Sand Island where I took a nap in the Sand!
 
I woke up sober and blistered not the first time in my young life at the time that's for sure but Julio wasn't sober cause he just wanted to go home!!! Who knows he might have found a girl! I hope he did now looking back from almost the age of 48 for Christ Sakes!
 
We stopped at my parents house to show off the when they lived on Hollinger's Island then headed back to mine and Val's trailer in Sea Pines Trailer Park on Dauphin Island Parkway after another successful and exciting day in the Gulf of Mexico!!!!!
 
No good sense at all cause I fixed what I thought was wrong and out the next week-end I went!
 
I would share the pictures but my ex-wife has them. I'm sure one day maybe she will give some of them back. I hope. I just haven't asked enough!
 
Please take a spare everything and your tool box!
 
I wouldn't go that unprepared or in that boat again if you put a gun to my head!!!
 
I hope you enjoyed the story my friends!
 
I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order.


Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marines web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you!

Please Visit Battleship Marine I would sure appreciate it yall!
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
  
God Bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge!

Floyd Clifton Wooley
 
Fuel Fittings, filters and Clamps not to Mention a Tool Box!
 
 
Single Cable Steering or Hydraulic Steering!
 
 
All of your Safety Supplies including a VHF or your Cell-Phone in a "Dry-Bag".
Last Time I was in the Gulf I couldn't even take my Smart-Phone out of the Dry Bag it was raining so hard. Take that as you may. I had to keep my boat afloat and my Evinrude running at all costs! 

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Journal Entry 032214-A: Battleship Marine!

Friends,
 
A short story!
 
One time in the late 70's when Terry Cove Marina was still Terry Cove Marine at Orange Beach my parents kept the Mermaid docked in the Marina.
 
We would all go down on a Saturday night after my parents closed their Exxon Travel Stop located on Battleship Parkway across from where Stauter Boats was for many years prior to hurricane Frederic and Laps is located now and spend the night on the Mermaid!
 
I think I'll save that story for another time and tell one that is a little more exciting.
 
All the short stories of the time spent with my parents on a boat begin the way this story has begun with hard work then recreation something I am very proud of being able to say.
 
My parents enjoyed work. I do too but I also love excitement.
 
One night we left Dog River Marina and headed out into Mobile Bay on a planned Southerly heading toward an anchorage in one of the coves north-west of Billy Goat Hole at Dauphin Island.
 
My mother had CCR on the stereo 8-track player or it could have been Barry White but as we traveled South parrell with the Mobile Channel but not in the channel the weather became quite nasty with wavez building and the wind a howling as the twin 350's roared!
 
There are so many songs in my memory from many of these late-nights runs to Dauphin Island that my parents and I made but I'm sure it was CCR that was booming over the speakers on the Mermaid that Night as the waves broke over the bow of the Mermaid and inundated the windshield and windshield wipers!
 
My dad at the helm running the ship like a Captain with Cats eyes no spotlight did he use- navigation using the light of the stars and a compass!
 
The spot light only blinds you to what may be in the water ahead.
 
You use the spotlight to find a channel marker or to determine an object ahead nothing more!
 
I trusted my dad with that boat so much I lay on the Sofa-Bed listening to the roar of the engines the sound of CCR and the water brushing against that old Chris Crafts hull.
 
I laid there with a thrill in my heart and a pride I will never forget!
 
Not one ounce of fear!
 
We pulled into Billy Goat Hole and I went to sleep in the forward state room and the next day we went fishing!
 
That my friends is the reason I have no fear of the Sea. My dad taught me that fear at Sea only distracts and confuses you!
 
You keep the ship afloat and let your skills, instinct and experience keep you out of the water and her Wet!
 
That is why when I had a chance to buy a fine boat once in my life and her name was "Keep Her Wet" I thought my God that is the whole idea!
 
I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order.


Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marines web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you! 
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
 
 
God Bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge!

Floyd Clifton Wooley





Friday, March 21, 2014

Journal Entry 032114-A: Battleship Marine!

Friends,
A short story for you about the water!
One night in the early nineties my ex-wife Valerie and I decided to spend the night on Sand Island South of Dauphin Island in a tent with our 19' Sea Breeze Tri-Hull Bow Rider with a 150 Evinrude.
The Boat was pulled up on the Beach.
 
It was early Spring and still cool out.
 
In the middle of the night I woke up to the sound of water lapping against the hull!
 
A front had passed the wind shifted and the tide had gone out!
 
The boat was sideways on the beach!
 
Val and I stripped down our clothes because the temperature had dropped and rushed to the waters edge and the boat!
 
We heaved and hawed with that in sequence with the waves naked and cold slowly working the boat off the beach!
 
It seemed like forever but we got her in the water!
 
I anchored her into the wind and and we went back to sleep in the tent!
 
I didnt sleep well the rest of the night I think because didnt trust one anchor and I didnt have a stern anchor I just had the stern backed up to the beach.
 
It was a night to remember to be perfectly honest!
 
I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order.



Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marines web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you! 
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
 
 
God Bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge!

Floyd Clifton Wooley
 

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Journal Entry 032014-A: Battleship Marine!

Friends,
My parents used to shrimp every Sunday and one Sunday we were shrimping in Mobile Bay and I asked my parents can we go fishing and my parents said "yes"!
A while later we were out at Farewell Buoy on the Rodeo in my parents 17' Well-Craft.
We had an old hummingbird depth finder and at the time there was a 75' hole that we had trolled around near farewell buoy.
I looked over the side well I always stared over the side looking for something "spectacular" in the water and that day as fate would have it I was looking over the side waiting on one of the Penn Reels to sing into some of the clearest light green water you could imagine.
My dad my dad must have been looking in same spot.
I was in the first grade or thereabouts.
All of a sudden a white shadow crossed our path and one its eyes rolled up and looked at us as it passed under the boat.
It was as big as the boat and my dad and I looked at each other!
I think I said "What is that?"
My dad said to my best re-collection: "Its a shark son be quiet" with a very stern face!
My mother sitting on the bow turned and to my best recollection said "What?"
To this day I'm not sure what my dad said.
That was a helluva shark. A bull I would think!
I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order! Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marines web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you! 
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
 
Floyd Clifton Wooley
God Bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge!
Floyd Clifton Wooley

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Journal Entry 031914-A: Battleship Marine!

Friends,
I thought I would share a story from my child hood.
 
My parents owned the 38' Chris Craft pictured with this post. Shown in the photo of the Mermaid on the Stern of the boat is my Carol Wright Wooley. I'm in the water and my father Floyd Edward Wooley was in the Dinghy to take the picture.
 
We were at Sand Island one night and a big time squall moved in to at least my Surprise.
We were anchored on the North Side of the Island that is located South of Dauphin Island, Alabama.
This was in the 1970's prior to Sand Isand being attached to Dauphin Island by Hurricane Katrina.
The last time I was on Dauphin Island the Pier still land locked.
 
It was a helluva blow that night toward the middle of Sand Island with dozens of boats anchored out for the night.
 
The storm kicked up seas so rough that boats were in distress.
 
One of the boats was a ship named the El Toro owned by Bender Shipbuilding and on the radio we could here the communication between the Coast Guard and other boaters!
 
Keep in mind the El Toro had a helicopter on board.
 
It was radioed in that there were two yachts at Sand Island that night and my parents boat the Mermaid was included with the El Toro as one of the two Yachts!
 
I thought I was somebody that night as a boat that was dragging anchor pulled up to the stern of the Mermaid and threw us a line to tie off until the squall was past Sand Island!
 
I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order! Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marine's web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you! 
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
 
Floyd Clifton Wooley
God Bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge!
Floyd Clifton Wooley

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Journal Entry 031514-A: One more day and were past the half-way point in March 2014!

 
 
 
Friends,

One more day in the month of March and we are past the half-way mark in this month and I appreciate your business to this point in 2014 and your visits to my web-sites very much! I look forward to this boating season very much and I hope to not only see you in the store but also on the water but although it was a blast in that storm last year in the Gulf of Mexico "I have no intentions of putting myself and my back in another storm in the Gulf of Mexico anytime soon"!

I was counting the number of boats I have owned in my life the other day and two of them were owned either jointly with my ex-wife Valerie or the last power boat we owned may have been hers only as it was meant to be so to keep the number from 13 (A very bad number) let's just say I have owned 12 including the one parked here at Battleship Marine a 1988 17' Negus with a 1988 88 horse-power Evinrude!

Let's see how many outboard motors have I owned. I have owned 9. I have owned 2 Mercruisers so that's a total of 11 Marine engines. I'm not bragging just reminiscing. the one boat I have never owned is a Sailboat. I would love to say I have. I've sailed once in my entire life with a friend who is now in heaven for Christ Sakes!

He sure as hell deserves to be. He loved fishing more than I do and had a heart-attack at work as the manager of the Super-Lube in Tillman's Corner, Alabama when he was very young. He only within the last few years passed. Like I said he is in Heaven.

He had a Chrysler Sailboat and we had a chance to sail together on that boat when I was barely in my teens. I never will forget the Peacefulness of hearing nothing but the wind in the rigging and the waves splashing over the gunnel!

God Bless Michael Patin and your family.

Michael you fished when no one else wanted to and caught fish! The rest of kids may have thought what I thought "My God he has Patience"!

You couldn't catch nothing but hard-head catfish on Hollinger's Island in the 70's and 80's unless you had the patience of Job! Lord. I don't have the patience of Job. I like to Troll for my fish and enjoy the ride!

I hope you have found a business, product, service or something you would like to have yourself on the advertising page. If your looking for something please let me place a wanted advertisement on that site for you.
 
If you do need Marine Supplies, Marine Engine Parts or Boat Trailer Parts please browse the pages section located in the right side-bar of the web-version of this site!
 
If you don't find the items you are looking for please stop by or give me a call and I'll do my best to get it for you!
 
The Goal is to save you some time and money!

I'm slowly working to be in a position to increase my "Athletic Gifts and Nautical Gifts" inventory as well! Please browse the pages Section of my Home Blog and the Gulf Coast Girls site as those items are featured on those pages in that order! Please keep in mind the "Pages" Section is located in right side-bar of the web-version of each of the 3 sites I feature products "For-Sale" on that I inventory here at Battleship Marine.
 
Listed below are some of the Categories of Marine Supplies that are "Available" to me here at Battleship Marine by my Wholesalers that are "Available" to you!
 
*Electronics
*Navigation Equipment
*Electrical Supplies
*Lighting Supplies
*Marine Batteries
*General Boating
*Safety Supplies
*Anchoring
*Mooring
*Water-Sports
*Trolling
*Fishing
*Seating
*Covers
*Tops
*Paint
*Maintenance
*Deck Hardware
*Fasteners
*Steering
*Controls
*Pumps and Plumbing
*Ventilation
*Marine Engine Parts
*Fuel Tanks, Fuel Lines, Fuel Fittings, Fuel Filters
*Oil, Grease, Lubricants
*Propellers (Stainless Steel and Aluminum)
*Zincs and Anodes
*Boat Trailer Parts
*Magic Tilt Trailers
*Consignment Sales Welcomed
*Free advertising of your local Business, Product, Service or Items "For-Sale" on the "classified" advertising blog!

Again thank you for visiting Battleship Marine's web-site's and please do give me a call or stop by if I can be of Service to you! 
 
Have a Safe and Enjoyable 2014 Boating and Fishing Season! Commercial Fishing and Boating Customers are Welcome as well.
 
Floyd Clifton Wooley

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