“Over the years you swam the ocean, following dreams that were your own, now you are washed up on the shoreline. I can see your body lie. It’s a shame you have to die………… It’s not that we don’t know, it’s just that we don’t…
Posts published in “February-March 2023”
This is part two of cruising to Pitcairn Island, the home of the mutineers of the HMAV Bounty and the world’s most remote island. Part one in last month’s Long Island Boating World can be read at www.liboatingworld.com or by emailing tab@tabhauser.com. Last month’s covered…
In 1626 an army of loggers was ordered by the King of Sweden, King Gustav II Adolf, to various estate forests in Sweden where they cut down a thousand of the finest giant oak trees and piled them onto barges. The logs were barged down…
The remains of one of the most famous vessels in history may have washed up last fall at Fire Island National Seashore.A 13-foot-by-13-foot section of ribs and planking from what appears to be an early 19th century sailing vessel came ashore during Tropical Storm Ian…
By the year 2030 the US Census predicts 20% of us will be 65 or older. The New York Times is worried about the prospects of the financial challenge of so many of us living longer. If you look around your marina you’ll probably find…
Bill Sisson grew up along the shore in Watch Hill and describes himself as, “one of a small group of gangly, feral boys who spent hours at the Watch Hill Lighthouse scouring the low-tide rocks for lost fishing gear, terrifying both fish and one another…
“Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”-The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge It’s a simple three-atom molecule element that covers three-fourths of the earth’s surface at depthsup to 6-1/2 miles deep.…
Driving over the Goose Neck Bridge at least four times a week, I keep noticing a fair-size Catalina-type sail boat abandoned on the southwest side, close to the base of the bridge. It’s obviously abandoned for convenience and is a critical danger to mariners using…
At the time of this writing, I am in Florida working for a few months. Thankfully I am missing all the cold weather in the North. If I were home though, I would attend one of the many boat shows in the Northeast, bound to…
Keeping Our Waterways Clean … Marine salvage is the process of recovering a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty … Identify the Scope of Services Required … The scope of services performed by salvage companies are very broad. Salvage may…