April already…Did those of you who attended the boat show have a nice time? Buy a new boat or drool over one you wish you could afford? I know that would have been me – drooling not buying…but unfortunately, I’m still away from home and…
Long Island Boating World
River was my destination on a pleasant winter day. I chose to visit here for a half-day road trip because I had the urge to be on the water. With my boat wrapped for the season, this easy-to-visit island had the water views I needed.Roosevelt…
Captain James Cook is considered the greatest British explorer of all time. In three voyages of discovery, starting in 1768, Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, surveyed…
A SHIP ARREST IS NO PLEASURE CRUISE After a TKO in the early rounds of the pandemic, many luxury cruise lines are making a comeback. Except one. Crystal Cruises may be down for the count, but was it the pandemic that dealt the final blow?…
The Legal Duty of Presenting a Safe Vessel People sometimes debate the question of whether a vessel is safest in an anchorage or at sea. The comfort of being in a snug harbor is almost proverbial. A tranquil bay is clearly safer than contending with…
We sold our boat of almost twenty years and purchased a new to us boat. By the time you read this all the transactions needed to make this happen should be done. It has not been an easy task. In the November/December issue, I wrote…
After slipping in the snow on the dock and severely injuring myself, the rest of the winter was spent mostly sitting in Patty O’s saloon watching the world go by. We have also been forced to listen to constant tirades of, “you should be recovering…
April showers bring more than May flowers, they bring plenty of striped bass. Always during the second to third week of the month, an inevitable Nor’Easter rumbles through, churning up the waters and ushering in the first droves of bass in full force along the…
April is here and so too with it the start of another open-water fishing season in Southern New England. This was a very mild winter by most standards with, as of the writing of this month’s piece, zero accumulation of snow at my house for…
Come April, most of us have probably gotten some bass by shore in the back bays, creeks, and estuaries on the east end on soft plastics and small surface plugs. To the west large migrating stripers coming up the coast of jersey and down from…