It is the middle of February as I write this, with snow turning to rain tonight and over fifteen inches of snow expected later in the week. Like many of you, I am looking forward to the coming warmer weather and getting out on our…
Long Island Boating World
A calm Long Island Sound and a midday sun can reveal an attractive sight, just a few feet below the surface. As it pulses its bell and drifts in the currents, it is occasionally accompanied by several small, slate-blue colored butterfish. They closely follow the…
The first act of any prudent mariner is a check of the weather. You look up. You notice the clouds. You take in the wind on your face, it’s direction and force. You look at the water and compute the effect of waves against the…
What the heck were you waiting for? You knew this day would come and if you weren’t aware that you must have a N.Y.S. Boating Certificate by now…. Well, it’s time to take an axe and stave your boat’s hull now. Why? Because you are…
I’ve been working in California for the last 2 months and have become quite addicted to Mexican street tacos. There are as many places to buy tacos here as there are delis in NY. In fact, I haven’t even seen a delicatessen here.I became very…
As I write this column, we’ve just been through the coldest winter in about six years, and it was an actual winter with snow and frozen ponds all across the state which we haven’t seen in quite some time. That has kept the back bay…
April is one of my favorite months because it is the first month where you can begin to sniff spring. And I mean that literally. Forsythia, snowdrops, and dandelions make their appearances, and for some superstitious anglers, the first dandelions mean that fishing season in…
The beginning is always the most exciting. The tease of the upcoming seasons as ospreys return to local skies in past weeks or the slight ripples of bait in back bay waters has stoked the anticipation for this year’s season. Expectations are high on the…
THE ANDREA DORIAThe Italia Line’s SS Andrea Doria has intersected my life a few times and greatly sparked my interest in the sea. I was nine years old when it sunk on July 25, 1956, only 50 miles off Nantucket and 100 plus from New…
When the topic of the Panama Canal comes up, the last name mentioned is probably Balboa. Yet in 1513, Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the isthmus of Panama and discovered it to be only a narrow strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.…