Local Landmarks
This landmark is the most famous pink building in our AOR, splitting Long Key into St. Pete Beach and Pass-A-Grille.
This is the first channel we enter after exiting Frenchman Creek.
What is Cat's Point Channel?
This marina is located West of Structure Echo and has its name labeled right on the front of the building.
What is TV Hi and Dry?
This swash is located East of First Span and helps you get to the Main Span of Skyway quicker.
What is Fergie Swash?
These boat ramps are attached to a park with the same name, and it happens to be located right here in Frenchman Creek.
What is Maximo Boat Ramps?
This landmark is the most famous bridge in Tampa Bay.
What is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge?
This channel runs along a set of bridges from North to South. This channel has lit markers 1, 9, 17, and 26.
What is the Sunshine Skyway Channel?
This marina has a long approach channel and has the following amenities: Dry Slips, Wet Slips, Forklift, Travel Lift, Both fuel types, and a Mechanic.
What is Maximo Marina?
This shoal is marked by a red triangle 24 ATON that has a quick flash pattern.
What is Soup Bowl Shoal?
This bridge is north of PAG marina and connects a key to Pass-A-Grille Beach.
What is Vina Del Mar Bridge? (or Mud Key Bridge)
Name the island just South of Eckerd College that is a common spot for kayaking trips and field labs.
What is Indian Key?
Name this waterway that spans from Mexico to Massachusetts.
What is the Intracoastal Waterway? (Do NOT accept Intercoastal Waterway)
Name the five marinas in local box that have a mechanic.
What are O'Neills, Maximo, Mariner's Cove, Marine Max, and Port 32?
This swash is named after the markers you reference to take this shortcut, allowing you to bypass the Main/CP/Skyway/PEW intersection
What is the 4-18 swash?
This boat ramp is attached to a public access park on Mullet Key. The park this boat ramp is attached to has beaches, two fishing piers, and a characteristic flagpole.
What is Fort DeSoto Boat Ramp?
This landmark is the remains of an old ship hull, where pelicans congregate and remind boaters that the water outside the channel is way too shallow.
What are the Whale Bones?
Name the three channels that compose Main Shipping Channel.
What are Egmont Channel, Mullet Key Channel, and Cut A?
Name the two marinas that have marine grade ethanol-free 90 octane fuel but NOT diesel.
What are O'Neills Marina and Mariners Cove?
Name this pass created by a hurricane, where drunk boaters get left high and dry by the outgoing tide.
What is Irma's Pass?
Name the three bridges in Old Tampa Bay in order from North to South.
What are the Courtney Campbell, the Howard Frankland, and Gandy Bridge.
Name this island with its characteristic lighthouse, coast guard docks, and ruins.
What is Egmont Island?
Name (in order from North to South) the eight channels/passes that lead into the Gulf in our AOR.
What is John's Pass, Blind Pass, Pass-A-Grille Pass, Bunces Pass, Main Shipping Channel, Southwest Channel, Passage Key Inlet, and Longboat Pass?
You are towing a disabled sailboat West of Second Span. It needs a place to dock and potentially be pulled to be worked on. Name the closest marina you could take this to.
What is TV Hi and Dry?
This swash is located between two namesake bridges that we do not drive through anymore due to depth concerns.
What is the Echo-Bravo swash?
Name at least three bridges we need to take our antennas down for.