Did you ever see those old sailing adventure flicks where the British ship commander or the ranting Pirate captain gets the crew onboard to kneel and scrub the decks with fresh seawater and a ballast stone wrapped in a rag! They even had that scene…
Long Island Boating World
Well here we are in December and I am still cleaning up leaves, and there are still plenty of them left on the trees refusing to come down. This is becoming a problem as I have other projects to get going on! Over the winter…
When it comes to maritime salvage, the basic concept is an ancient one. The notion of coming to the assistance of an imperiled vessel is something that dates back to the days of sail-driven merchant ships hauling grain and oils across the Mediterranean.Due to the…
Before reading the weekly tide tables as gospel, let’s take a moment to review a few essentials. First, don’t mistake precision with accuracy. What??? Just because we can predict the tides to the second as far into the future as you could imagine (after all,…
Marine Environmental Protection … 10 Ways We Can Protect Our Marine Environment … In the United States the Coast Guard develops and enforces regulations to avert …1 … The introduction of invasive species into the maritime environment … 2 … stopping unauthorized ocean dumping, and…
We tried stretching out our stay at West Harbor, on Fishers Island. We eventually had to head back to the yard due to a shortage of supplies and then there was the weather. A late October Nor’easter, with a barometer reading lower than 980mb snuck…
Here we are again, another year has sped by and unfortunately still dealing with a worldwide virus. I think our wish for the New Year is for it to be over. Hopefully, it will be in time.Recently it was decided by a holistic practitioner that…
Fall fishing off Long Island is one of the best seasons of the year. The weather gets colder, the days are shorter, and the fish get bigger. The true warriors don’t pack in until December if at all. When the weather cooperates, there is been…
Looking back at last year’s January column, we were smack dab in the Covid confusion and for the start of 2022, it’s pretty safe to say we don’t know what the winter months will bring us this year regarding Covid protocols. Signs point to somewhat…
