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Yamaha Outboard Motor Sale at Florida Boat Dealer.

Yamaha Outboard Motors’ and Cannons Marina, has TWO ways to save sales event!

And now is the time to act because this deal will NOT last long!


Cannons Marina Honored as 2008 Top Boat Dealer by Scout Boats.

Cannons Marina of Longboat Key, Florida has been awarded Top Boat Dealer by Scout Boats as the best marina in North America for customer satisfaction for model year 2008.  Cannons earned a perfect, 100%, Customer Service Index (CSI) rating!


Boaters Be Warned. Ethanol can and will affect your Yamaha Outboard Motor’s Performance.

Ethanol. Yamaha Motors. Yamaha Performance.

Yesterday a customer called very unhappy about an annual service he had performed almost two months ago. The issue: ETHANOL fuel.

In June, we informed our customers that Ethanol blends even blended with ratios as little as 10 percent are causing problems. This is such an important issue that I want to reiterate this to our customers.


Scout Boats and Cannons Marina’s Boat Sale

Now is the time to get the boat that you have always dreamed about.

Get up to $1,500 rebate from Scout Boats and up to $3,000 in extended warranty value from Yamaha Motor’s Y.E.S. program.

Come by or call us to see specific boat model details. Offer expires December 1, 2008, so act now!


Cannons Marina Wins ‘Best Place to Buy A Boat’ For Third Consecutive Year.

Annually, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune awards the Readers Choice Awards. Readers of the daily are asked to complete and submit their ballots to an independent, outside agency that tallies the results.

“We are thrilled with the 2007 designation from the readers and consumers of the Sarasota Herald –Tribune. We attribute this award to our team and our focus on customer satisfaction, every day,” said David Miller, owner of Cannons Marina.


Sarasota Bay Watch and The Great Scallop Search

Team Cannons Marina participated in the Great Scallop Search and we are happy to report that our divers found 32 scallops and a nice little shark feeding on the sandbar! The scallop research was administered by local and regional scientists, but it was actually the local community volunteers who went overboard into the seagrass to count the budding scallop population in Sarasota Bay. The results were as follows:

  • Total Scallops counted: 947
  • Transects covered: 36
  • Boat participating: 31
  • Snorkelers participating: 62

Some Fast Facts About Bay Scallops (provided by the Tampa Bay Estuary Program):


New Website and Boating Industry Blog

Cannons Marina has a newly designed website that we feel is dynamically content rich, including a boating blog resource that will deliver boating and fishing tips, cruise destinations, manufacturers’ offers and other interesting boating industry news.

We encourage your comments, suggestions and kind interactions on our blog. Here at Cannons Marina, we are a family owned and operated marina since 1955. We continue to provide exceptional customer service, create long-term relationships and have fun at work and on the water!


Cannons Marina Sponsors A Child’s Education in Costa Rica

On a recent trip to Costa Rica, Cannons Marina owners, David Miller and Lucile Capo-Miller, again sponsored a child to attend the La Escuela Nueva Hoja School in Puerto Jimenez on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.

The first bi-lingual school in the Osa, La Escuela Nueva Hoja is non-profit private school for children pre-kindergarten through 6th grade. The curriculum features English, science and mathematics taught in English while social studies, earth wellness and tropical ecology are taught in Spanish. Accreditation is arranged through Calvert Home School.For the school year that began January 30, 2007, 30 students are currently enrolled.


Cannons Marina Named 36th Top Marina in North America

Cannons Marina was awarded the highest Customer Service Index (CSI) ranking by Boating Industry Magazine’s 2006 Top 100 Boat Dealers in North America at a recent black-tie celebration in Las Vegas.

Boating Industry also named them the top 36th boat dealer in North America for 2006, an impressive jump from their 50th slot in 2005. Cannons, a 54-year old Longboat Key full-service marina, ranked again among the magazine’s top five marinas throughout the state of Florida.

Boating Industry Magazine’s Top 100 is an elite annual ranking of dealerships who surpass established industry standards for business operations, customer service, marketing and professionalism.
Boating Industry reviewed more than 400 applications, culled over 3,000 nominations. The applications asked both quantitative and qualitative questions regarding all aspects of marine dealership operations.