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Neuromancer · 07-13-2010, 07:25 AM

You want to have breakfast at Blue Heaven...fantastic breads and muffins and such, and great breakfast...it's a favorite with the locals...for seafood the Half Shell Raw Bar is another locals hangout...great food...see the sunset at Mallory Square, or even go out for the sunset cruise on the Great Eastern Clipper Ship...they'll even let you help hoist the sails...or is it called the Western Union...oh, well...guess I forgot...you can check it out when you're there...it was used to lay the transatlantic cable...

Ah, found it...Schooner Western Union. As the last tall ship built in Key West, she marks the end of the era of working coastal schooners. A voyage on the Schooner Western Union Maritime Museum is a unique opportunity to sail into history.

Built in Key West in 1939, she is one of the oldest working wooden schooners in the United States. Constructed to tend the Western Union cable lines, today she offers a mix of romance, fun, and excitement that could only be offered by THE premier sailing vessel of the Florida Keys.

Neat sunset cruise on it...

07-13-2010, 07:25 AM	#5
Neuromancer Will work for Boli GM's Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Marc Location: Lost in translation...near Newnan, GA Posts: 1,417 Trading: (23)	Re: Getting ready for Key West You want to have breakfast at Blue Heaven...fantastic breads and muffins and such, and great breakfast...it's a favorite with the locals...for seafood the Half Shell Raw Bar is another locals hangout...great food...see the sunset at Mallory Square, or even go out for the sunset cruise on the Great Eastern Clipper Ship...they'll even let you help hoist the sails...or is it called the Western Union...oh, well...guess I forgot...you can check it out when you're there...it was used to lay the transatlantic cable... Ah, found it...Schooner Western Union. As the last tall ship built in Key West, she marks the end of the era of working coastal schooners. A voyage on the Schooner Western Union Maritime Museum is a unique opportunity to sail into history. Built in Key West in 1939, she is one of the oldest working wooden schooners in the United States. Constructed to tend the Western Union cable lines, today she offers a mix of romance, fun, and excitement that could only be offered by THE premier sailing vessel of the Florida Keys. Neat sunset cruise on it... __________________ "...pipe smoking is properly an intellectual exercise." ~ Christopher Morley, 1916 Last edited by Neuromancer; 07-13-2010 at 07:38 AM.