Mumbo Jumbo | April 2010
MUMBO JUMBO April, 2010
CHECK OUT THE NEW WEB SITE!! ScottKirby.com
Well, after much debate, research and development, we have finally rolled out the brand new web site! If you haven’t seen it yet please check it out. It came online about 10 days ago and judging by the flood of e-mails, phone calls and facebook messages, everyone seems to like it. We’re getting particularly rave reviews for the “Blow Me Down to Cayo Hueso” music video produced by the web site designers at the Conch Republic Media Group. Craig and Gail Hollenback and videographer Matthew Ozanich did a terrific job of putting this together and I found them right here in Key West! Thanks to them and my assistant, Terry Lederer, for making this all happen!
About four months ago I got a call from Craig to arrange an interview with me for Conch TV and to get CDs of mine for Conch Radio, two online enterprises they are involved here. (check them out online) I was so impressed with the quality of the video, sound and professional editing of the video that I asked if they happened to do web site design. They did and Gavin Smith (my marketing guru) and I checked out some of their sites and loved their work.
Speaking of Gavin, I want to thank him for all the marketing advice he has given me and for developing the branding that is such an integral part of the new web site, the latest CD cover and promotional materials and other new merchandise we are developing. Gavin is super busy with his own company, NRG Marketing in Los Angeles, so I’m particularly grateful that he always finds the time to steer me in the right direction!
We plan to regularly add new video, photos and articles, so please stop by often to see what’s going on in our neighborhood, and when we might be coming to yours!
SPRING BREAK IN THE KEYS!!
You know how sometimes it takes friends visiting from out of town to get you off your ass and take advantage of all the great things in your area? I’m very blessed to live in such a unique place as Key West, and even though I’ve sailed my entire adult life, I don’t own my own boat right now and sometimes gaze at the day planner on my desk and realize I haven’t been out on the water in months. Ridiculous!
Fortunately friends of ours from Annapolis, Tom and Regan Weaver, arrived last week for a few days of R & R and to escape the brutal winter they’ve had up there. They are both fantastic sailors and have raced here in the Key West Regatta for years. Tom, a professional sailor, has run an America’s Cup syndicate, raced around the world twice and crossed the Atlantic more times than I’ve crossed Vineyard Sound! How he’s still alive is beyond me, but that’s another story. He and his partner launched their own powerboat company a few years back and designed a gorgeous boat called the Eastport 32.
One of his boats happened to be in Key West for a few weeks so we had the good fortune of spending a little time on board, catching plenty of fish and getting out to Boca Grande, a beautiful island about 15 miles west of town where I hooked into a huge hammerhead shark with a little spinning rod. It was fantastic for me as most of my time on the water down here has been in sailboats and running out to these spectacular spots like Boca Grande or other spots in the back country is not as easily done because of the distance involved and shallow water.
I was sitting next to a surgeon from New York at the bar at Pepe’s Café about 15 years ago and we happened to strike up a conversation and he mentioned he came to Key West every year to fish in the flats, the shallow water to the north and west of Key West. At that time I had not spent much time exploring those waters, and when I told him that he seemed completely perplexed and said, “you’re missing the whole point of living here… the real beauty of the Keys is out there… on the water.” I’ve never forgotten that. So what’s the point of this story? THE POINT IS I NEED AN EASTPORT 32!!!!!
APRIL FOOLS!
Scott
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