Now you have some idea of what the Columbus Day Regatta is like. The 40th regatta was on Saturday and Sunday on Biscayne Bay. The fleet consisted of 345 sailboats competing in 20 classes.

Among the places I took him on his research trips: the Columbus Day Regatta party off Elliott Key, a Russian-owned strip club in Sunny Isles Beach, the Miami Boat show, and a botanica in Hialeah.

A fleet of 549 sailboats will take to the waters of Biscayne Bay for the 36th Columbus Day Regatta Saturday and Sunday. The first of 23 different sailing classes will cross a starting line off ...