With Mustard, our little twenty-foot runabout finally in the water and the Blonde, my wife, back at her office, things were relatively quiet around the boat yard. There’s a lot of talk on TV news and in the papers as to the number of hurricanes…
Posts published in “August 2022”
A recent accident on the cold waters of the Baltic Sea resulted in criminal charges being filed by authorities. In December 2021, two cargo vessels collided in the shipping lanes between Bornholm, a Danish Island, and Ystad, a town in Sweden. One of the vessels…
Meteorology and Oceanography … Understanding changes in the Weather … In the North Atlantic boaters will encounter winds between the latitudes of 5 degrees and 30 degrees. These winds are the Trade Winds … They were named during the age of sailing by the crews…
How many boaters have seen or been party to some difficult social interaction at sea? Answer – All of us or you haven’t been using your boat enough. Whether it’s in the marina, at the gas dock, drifting while fishing, cruising down the channel, or…
Some of the most unique fishing opportunities happen in August. Warmer water temperatures welcome tropical and out of town visitors, some that are making their appearance more regular over the years and others that have some serious gps issues with gulfstream. Offshore fishing is in…
August means options in the Southern New England waters off the Connecticut and Rhode Island coasts. If you time things right and plan out your attack in an efficient way, you could realistically land black sea bass, fluke, striped bass, cod, porgies, blackfish, bluefish, false…
The heart of summertime fun is upon us as the calendar page flips to August. It’s the time of year when exotics add spice to the mix. Spanish macks, bonito, mahi, skipjacks, king mackerel and more patrol the waters inshore to offshore. Bluefish in the…