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Most of you already know what we do
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And we love to help you out by showing you how to keep your boat on the water
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But we'd like to show you a little bit more about where we live and why we do what we do
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So we're going to take you on a little trip into our backyard and show you the four most
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popular sandbars of the Florida Keys. Though there are many more sandbars than just these, we'll focus on the biggest ones being
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the Almorata, Marathon, Big Pine, and Key West Sandbars. Now because of county tourist trespassing ordinances, we can't show you how to get to these
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sandbars, so for legal purposes, we'll just show you what it looks like once you get there
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We'll start with the Almerada Sandbar. Its location is unknown but it sits on the east side of a channel and is extremely distinguishable because it has a flagpole in the middle of the bar Sporting a beautiful American flag
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It's a nice size sandbar, probably somewhere between a quarter mile and a half mile long
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or just over half a kilometer. It is the only sandbar of the four that can be seen from the overseas highway
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and on a good weekend you can see anywhere from 100 to 200 boats hooked up
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Next up, we've got the Marathon Sandbar
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This sandbar sits on the ocean side of the Keys and it's one of the longer sandbars in the Keys
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It's roughly half a mile to three quarters of a mile long and can fit up to probably 400
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On a really nice holiday like the 4th of July, you will usually see around 200 to 300 boats
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anchored up in the sun. As we move down the keys and into the backcountry we find Big Pine most famous sandbar spot that tucked back into a little cove This sandbar is tricky because you can only fit a very shallow drafting boat into here and during some tides you can even get in at low tide
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This is a location where you can float in at high tide and hand in
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out until the tide goes out or you might find yourself stuck back in here for quite a few hours
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It's a smaller sandbar with a channel that flows through the middle of it, giving us two nice white sandbars on each side
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It's only a few hundred yards long though, so the capacity isn't anything like the other sandbars
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You might find about a hundred smaller boats stuffed in here though during times like mini season
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Then there are also a couple more sandbar spots on the east side of the cove as well
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Now our last stop is going to be down in Key West. But some of you might be wondering to yourself, what about the Comtest Prize
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Well, this week you get to pick your own prize. Well, you get to pick a portion of a prize, depending on what you want
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because we've got a credit to replacementboatparts.com. This is the place where we found those awesome stainless steel deck drain covers for the Ocean Master Project boat
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which, by the way, we just got the electronics ordered for, and we will be getting back onto that boat in the upcoming weeks And I put a link to that project playlist at the end of this video in case you haven seen that project yet Now down in Key West there are actually a few different sandbar spots that run along the gulf side of the back country But we focus here on the two
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most popular spots. These aren't very long sandbars per se, probably about a quarter mile
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but the first one is actually rather deep compared to the other three spots. And you can anchor up
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all the way to the back of this one. Which can be a little tricky sometimes, so if you'd like to learn a couple of tricks about anchoring at the sandbar
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you can check out the week before last video where we show the need to know sandbar and beach anchoring tricks
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Then just a little bit to the east of this sandbar, you will find two more spots that sit on the side of these channels
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These locations can get extremely busy during season. And you can find over 500 boats out here sometimes
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Now let us know about your beaches, coves, and sandbars in the comment section below
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and include a hashtag sandbar for your chance to win this week's prize
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Thank you for hanging out and we'll see you next week
