Keys To Kingdom—Regardless Of The Boat They Start
For the purposes of efficiently finding useful information on pretty much any subject, social media is a train wreck. Yet not everything—just most things—it has spawned is crap. OK, well at least one thing that come out of social media, Instagram to put a fine put on it, is excellent.
Born and raised in Key West, Fla., Daniel Garcia, III, created an Instagram group of that name a few years back. Now that group has more than 30,000 members and an annual schedule of casual, “run-what-you-brung” events.
The group grew out of a simple, basic premise: No matter what you boat own, the most important thing is being on the water.
Garcia loves performance-boating almost as much as he loves his hometown—and that’s saying a lot. He doesn’t care what kind of boat anyone owns. He never has. He just enjoys being boating with his friends. Long ago, he noticed that boat-owners throughout the Keys were too intimidating to run their less-than-marquee rides in “major” runs and such. He knew there was a demand for something more less structured and more inclusive.
And that’s where Keys Island Runners comes in. Organized and announced mostly through social media, it produces casual lunch runs and raft-ups. The next one heads to the Islamorada Sandbar and is set for February 21-22.
Whether you own a five-outboard center console or a single-outboard catamaran, all you have to do to be welcome is show up.
Keeping up with the Keys Island Runners schedule will require you, however, to access its Instagram or Facebook pages.
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