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Long Island Boating World

We Did It!

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…

On Living Aboard

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…

NJ Fishing Report

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…

CT/RI Fishing Report

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…

LI Fishing Report

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…

The Sinking of the VASA

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…

Older Boaters

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…