Time and tide are now on our side – I know it’s only February but if major league baseball has pitchers and catchers showing up, Spring isn’t too far away! So, BEFORE you start your engines, ready the boat! Getting StartedAs with any project, starting…
Long Island Boating World
With the most frigid winter crushing Jersey in at least 15 years, everybody is chomping at the bit to get on with spring time, though it looks like its going to be a long wait the way February is going. However, March brings that promise…
March on Long Island has a certain restless energy. Cold mornings and gray skies have been the norm, but not for much longer. Sunsets at reasonable hours, days of bright sun are crucial to warming up our waters after an epic winter. If you find…
OverviewIn March, we start to feel that desperate pull for spring to begin. It’s a transitional month, and one that goes out of a cold month and into a warmer one, which for me can be a frustrating time. For some reason, despite it having…
You left your boat in the water this year because the holidays came up too quickly and time ran away, so you figured, “What the hay, I’ll leave it in and pull it in the spring for maintenance.” You left your outboards down, ice eater…
The concept of raising or lowering a boat from one level to another, dates back to the 3rd century BC. Chinese, Egyptians and Greeks were building primitive locks to alter the flow of canal water and even preventing saltwater from the Red Sea from contaminating…
How a 19th-century record-keeping process became the most versatile art form in angling. The White Lies That Sparked an Art Revolution“It was this big!” Every angler has been there – arms stretched out, grin widening in unison with hands expanding further apart, showing the length…
The very mention of City Island evokes for many boaters a maritime history unique in New York, specifically in Long Island Sound. Of course, sailors think of beautiful yachts like Brilliant, built on City Island in 1932 but still active at Mystic Seaport, or Dorade,…
In the past getting out on the water was one of my primary forms of entertainment. Whether it was fishing with friends or sailing the waters of Long Island Sound I was out there almost every weekend. But it’s not that easy for me to…
January 17, 1920, marked the beginning of Prohibition. One of its purposes had been to improve morals in society by eliminating alcohol. But within weeks, the continued demand for illegal spirits soon led to smuggling and organized crime. Long Island Sound, with its 600 miles…