OCT 2021 Blues Vol 37 No. 10.1
OCT 2021 Blues Vol 37 No. 10.1 WE REMEMBER: We say good bye to a true hero, Senior Police Officer William “Bill” Jeffrey. FEATURE STORIES: • Biden Try’s To Eliminate Border Mounted Officers • Washington Try’s To Shift Focus From Drone Strike To Baseless Whipping Story At The Border • Who Wants To Be A Cop Part 6 DEPARTMENTS • Publisher’s Thoughts Part I. • Editor’s Thoughts • Your Thoughts • News Around the State • News Around the Country • Products & Services -Alternative Ballistics • Honoring our Fallen Heroes • Warstories • Aftermath • Open Road-Mustang Mach E Goes to Patrol • Healing Our Heroes • Daryl’s Deliberations • HPOU-From the President, Douglas Griffith • Light Bulb Award • Running 4 Heroes • Blue Mental Health with Tina Jaeckle • Off Duty with Rusty Barron • Parting Shots • Now Hiring - L.E.O. Positions Open in Texas • Last Page -Take Out the Trash
OCT 2021 Blues Vol 37 No. 10.1
WE REMEMBER: We say good bye to a true hero, Senior Police Officer William “Bill” Jeffrey.
FEATURE STORIES:
• Biden Try’s To Eliminate Border Mounted Officers
• Washington Try’s To Shift Focus From Drone Strike
To Baseless Whipping Story At The Border
• Who Wants To Be A Cop Part 6
DEPARTMENTS
• Publisher’s Thoughts Part I.
• Editor’s Thoughts
• Your Thoughts
• News Around the State
• News Around the Country
• Products & Services -Alternative Ballistics
• Honoring our Fallen Heroes
• Warstories
• Aftermath
• Open Road-Mustang Mach E Goes to Patrol
• Healing Our Heroes
• Daryl’s Deliberations
• HPOU-From the President, Douglas Griffith
• Light Bulb Award
• Running 4 Heroes
• Blue Mental Health with Tina Jaeckle
• Off Duty with Rusty Barron
• Parting Shots
• Now Hiring - L.E.O. Positions Open in Texas
• Last Page -Take Out the Trash
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A Cool New Boat Emerges<br />
with Axopar Brand<br />
Within 30 days of entering my<br />
retirement, I set out on fulfilling a<br />
dream I have had for a long time. I<br />
have always wanted to own a nice<br />
center-console fishing boat and use<br />
it to take family and friends out in<br />
the beautiful waters of the Gulf of<br />
Mexico. I have been on countless<br />
charter fishing trips in my life and<br />
always have been impressed with<br />
the knowledge of the captain and<br />
crew on how to find and catch fish,<br />
regardless of the conditions. It appeals<br />
to my sense of being a hunter<br />
and I too want to learn how to read<br />
the signs given by the open water<br />
and know I can find tuna, mackerel,<br />
mahi, grouper, snapper, and all of<br />
the other great game fish in the Gulf.<br />
The boat acquisition journey<br />
began with my usual amount of<br />
research determining what brand,<br />
size, equipment package,<br />
etc. that would<br />
best suit my area of<br />
Florida and the type<br />
of boating I want to<br />
do. Additionally, my<br />
wife and I agreed<br />
that we wanted a<br />
boat that she would<br />
enjoy as much as me<br />
when we take our<br />
family and friends out<br />
for cruising, not just<br />
fishing. Well, I found<br />
some nice hybrid<br />
boats that offer a lot<br />
for both fishing and<br />
family cruising and<br />
was almost ready to lock down on<br />
a boat when I by chance went to an<br />
in-the-water boat show in Maine<br />
and discovered a most unusual<br />
looking boat called the Axopar <strong>37</strong>XC.<br />
The “<strong>37</strong>” stands for <strong>37</strong>-foot long and<br />
the “XC“ stands for Crossover Cabin.<br />
When you climb on board this cool<br />
looking vessel you feel like it is a<br />
cross between a center-console, a<br />
cabin cruiser, and a family boat but<br />
my wife describes it as an RV on the<br />
water. Axopar is a company based<br />
in Finland and the boats are built in<br />
Poland. They are luxury recreational<br />
boats that serve as family cruisers,<br />
offshore fishing boats, and commercial<br />
charter boats. Their unusual<br />
look comes from their sharp bow<br />
that cuts through waves and chop<br />
and the pilot house that totally encloses<br />
the helm. I am going to outfit<br />
an Axopar <strong>37</strong>XC for fishing along the<br />
Florida Coast, complete with outriggers,<br />
live well, and a rigging table<br />
but will also have full AC in the pilot<br />
house and cabin below and wet bar<br />
at the stern. Axopar really wants to<br />
be known as the adventure company<br />
so they also equip their boats<br />
with a rack on top of the pilot house<br />
to allow for a kayak and a couple<br />
of bikes for those day trips to local<br />
ports where you can explore both<br />
onshore and offshore. Sounds like a<br />
perfect day on the water to me.<br />
There are just some many cool<br />
features I have discovered about<br />
Axopar that if you are in the market<br />
for that boat of a lifetime, you<br />
must experience an Axopar. While<br />
my boat is going to fit my retirement<br />
lifestyle in Florida, the<br />
Axopar 28 that won the<br />
2020 boat of the year<br />
would be great for the<br />
many lakes around the<br />
US, and for 2022 they<br />
are introducing a 25’<br />
model. Go check out<br />
their website (axopar.<br />
fi) for full videos and<br />
press releases. My boat<br />
will not be ready until<br />
March of next year, so<br />
for now I just have to<br />
dream so more, but<br />
soon it will become a<br />
reality.<br />
For local inquiries, contact Jordan<br />
Thomas Nurse at Nautical Ventures,<br />
jordan@nauticalventures.com or (727)<br />
518-5021.<br />
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