Summertime is here and the livin’ is easy as fishing is firing on all cylinders to keep anglers happy. Backwaters are loaded with fluke and beasties such as kingfish, blowfish and bluefish. Sea bassing was lit up on the nearshore wrecks where bigger fluke were…
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Name one boat accessory that has been kind of overlooked of late. If you haven’t figured it out yet, well sadly, there’s little I can say or do except “READ THE ___TITLE AGAIN! Yes! Alright, you got it now. No more yelling on my part.…
Happy Summer to all. I have just returned from an amazing vacation in Italy. Besides the beautiful scenery, jaw dropping architecture and artwork in the churches and the history in every town, what impressed me most was the food. How much simpler and healthier it…
The term “abandoned vessel” could bring to mind a number of different settings in maritime law. If we’re talking about a breakaway vessel drifting through a crowded anchorage after a fall Nor’easter, the urgency of the situation is obvious to most observers. The vessel is…
I used to be tall, but at my age, I’ve been in my shrinking stage for a while. What I have lost in height has been gained on my “Grog Belly”. When I’m with people of my generation, I still rate in height. When I…
There is an expression, “Wooden ships and iron men.” The expression came from a book of poetry published in 1933 by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet titled Clipper Ships and Captains.There was a time before our time,It will not come again,When the best ships still…
The passengers boarding the SS St Nicholas that warm evening at the Baltimore Wharf were relatively happy considering there was a civil war raging between the North and the South. Amidst the hustle and bustle of boarding some sixty passengers, there emerged an elegantly dressed…
The flickering of the amber light on the glass panes drew her attention away from her knitting. She placed the half-completed sweater down on her seat as she stood up and walked over to the window to take a closer look at the light. Her…
Although my nautical pursuits mostly involve pleasure boating, the recent tragedy of the container ship M/V DALI running into and destroying the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore – and then all the theories, opinions and speculations expressed by so many with no real knowledge…
Chris Craft founder Chris Smith, when a boy, enjoyed duck hunting, and as a hobby, carved his decoys from wood, which got him interested in boat building. He built his first boat with his brother Henry in 1874, a 13-foot skiff. Both brothers started to…