March 2004:  The first official meeting of the KWLKFGA.  Board members were elected and a treasury established.  Board members convened to elect Rick Bouley as Commodore, Simon Becker and Mike Vaughn as Vice Commodores, Doug Kilpatrick as Secretary, and Reuben Dunegan as Treasurer.  Other board members include Tom Rowland, Bryan Yates, Steve Impallomeni, and Tony Murphy.

June 2004:  The association joins lobbying efforts to decrease permit bag limits.   Association also begins work on opposing access restrictions in the Marquesa keys.  Will Benson is added to the board of directors.

July 2004:  Members vote to oppose Monroe County efforts to install permanent day-markers in Niles Channel.  

Sept. 2004: County’s Niles Channel marker proposal put on hold indefinitely.  Various alternative proposals to Marquesa’s access restrictions are finalized.

Dec. 2004:  Membership votes to keep Marquesa's access unrestricted.  National Wildlife Refuge Managers alert membership to proposed changes to Refuge Management Plan, possibly allowing personal watercraft (PWC) into the Refuge.  Membership immediately votes to fight any changes which would allow PWC re-introduction.

Jan. 2005  E-mail campaign and lobbying efforts commence to keep PWC ban in place.  Wildlife Refuge management informs association that access to the Marquesa's will remain unlimited.

March 2005:  Membership elects new board:  Simon Becker, Mike Vaughn, Steve Impallomeni, Bryan Yates, John O’Hearn, Drew Delashmit, Chris Garcia, Tony Murphy, and Doug Kilpatrick.

Board elects Bryan Yates as Commodore, Mike Vaughn and Simon Becker as Vice Commodores, Drew Delashmit as Secretary, and Steve Impallomeni as Treasurer.

Refuge Management informs membership of stay in personal watercraft industry’s plan to gain access to the lower keys backcountry.

June  2005:  Phone log established to record calls to law-enforcement, alerting them to PWC violations.  Association gains permission from Refuge to pursue private financing of Refuge boundary markers, delineating boundaries of PWC usage.

July 2005:  First annual KWLKFGA Flats Cleanup Held.