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07/17/2007 10:14 AM
<br /> Tallahassee Derr xrat Ankle
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<br /> Honoring
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<br /> 4-year effort for '
<br /> marker pays o
<br /> By Gerald Insley
<br /> "�y�. •• ``�
<br /> mamma—1•51111 X1.1;111 '1 'x"'4 4
<br /> Her Into father's name may not
<br /> make the sign. But Martha t '
<br /> Satccrnchik Pytel'a dogged attempt
<br /> to honor him sail other pioneering t•
<br /> charter bout captains In South r,"��
<br /> Florida may bo drawing to a sue- - -
<br /> cessfui conclusion.
<br /> State officials are expected to ki 641
<br /> approve a historical marker at z_
<br /> L
<br /> Hankerer Beach Park in Miami _••
<br /> once Py�tet revises the wording of If �•
<br /> flu marker.The marker wilt corer- -1
<br /> men►orate the site of a former ►.
<br /> ,.x 1 1.1•...
<br /> Joel: where the sea captains y j '_ 11111:: :-,
<br /> helped spawn Florida's deep-sail r ti'
<br /> fishing industry 75 years ago.
<br /> Pytel, a longtime Tallahassee •4•?.1 CI -ram
<br /> J rt rident, is not entirely pleased ,i
<br /> with the rcvltu:sted revisions. Rut, a .,
<br /> Ali
<br /> having sport four years pursuing .,,..,#.
<br /> a a irker, she. will take whet rshc _ ` ' +4
<br /> can get, . . , , „ r 3 9 :.
<br /> "These men were pioneers,and '--4,.;
<br /> -0,.•• e : . ire
<br /> ...1 this was a significant place in his- -
<br /> •, tory, she said. It should be .. '* a
<br /> marked." " •�,•
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<br /> 'flit aitr.is called"First Baker's -bait L
<br /> 1) Houlover Beach Fishing Docks-" t_,lic4I.4,,
<br /> • Now part of a well-known Miami• . -a , I. — '
<br /> • Dade County park (renowned for n.
<br /> a clothing-optional beach), the
<br /> f site is at the north end of Miami
<br /> Bench. Sandwiched between the # 1
<br /> Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Hay,
<br /> Y the area gat its name in the 19th
<br /> r century when a man named i
<br /> ]Baker tcould °haul aver" boats
<br /> ilfrom the bay to the ocean 1
<br /> Ia the early 19Uf1a, the HEW- .. f
<br /> laver Cut was dug, linking the ,r - /
<br /> ., hay and ncean. In 192G,boat cap- `
<br /> twin Henry Jonas built a dock on ',t i 1•
<br /> the bay side that h came. a head-
<br /> quartcrb for .eamrmcrcial fishing,
<br /> • and charter boats. .,,-..=�' ";,,
<br /> • Pytel's father,John Saconehilt, • .r:*
<br /> •� wit-.: rate of the early captains. A _
<br /> tune 'm t he and his
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<br /> use e, rleu,`nisi?t,tJ Miami Heath � � �' =
<br /> from Connecticut on their honey- s`• ,
<br /> moon in 19:14 and decided to atay, . -_""•'--
<br /> Saconchik tried his hand as a tun. i . . ,-4 -.•
<br /> r-rtruction worker, taxi driver and "
<br /> tire salesman before building a
<br /> hunt :Ind hr-inning a commercial
<br /> fisherman in 1935.Soon,he ahan- ''
<br /> doned commercial fishing in favrnr for '--4, +s* ,1..
<br /> of talcing tourists out on his heat, 0 _
<br /> Martha Mary — named fur his a
<br /> d tughter — to catch sailfish, ,..
<br /> PHIL SEARS fr.rr•■-•a'
<br /> Martha Saconchlk P1tel holds a ceramic modal of the"Martha Mary,*the boat her father chartered.
<br /> Please see MARKER
<br /> '2B Tallatla:»ee Demr?.dat* Friday',September 9H.9(101
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