Happy New Year! January is a weird month fishing-wise for me as well as most of the boating population in southern New England. It’s close enough to the end of the fishing season to still be fresh in our minds, but it’s also just removed…
Long Island Boating World
What a phenomenal wrap up for 2022 for the Jersey fishing scene. Firstly, surf and boat stripers were absolutely lit up with explosive, may I even say, historic activity, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Now, as…
Music, art, and song are woven into the canvas of sailing vessels.What did the sailors that manned the war, trade, whaling and fishing ships during the age of sail do to occupy themselves on the few hours they had to themselves?Every sailor aboard kept several…
The resort town of Myrtle Beach’s attractions tend to be intentionally situated on or near the beach. However, “The Grand Strand’s” latest attraction was brought to shore through the force of nature by hurricane Ian on Friday, September 30th when a shrimp trawler named the…
For those captains delivering boats or moving their own boats in the late fall, winter or early spring, there’s always the possibility of a blizzard, but these are the people who regularly make the New York to Florida and back round trip and they are…
If you are not sure just what kind of barnacle is growing on the bottom of your boat or sticking like glue to your pilings, don’t feel inadequate, there are over 1,400 different kinds of barnacles growing in the waters around the world. Chances are…
Under the golden haze of dawn, the Green Mountain Boys and other militiamen advanced very carefully toward the British-held Fort Ticonderoga, (NY). With just one enemy sentry on duty, the men under the command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold easily captured all 48 of…
Each month, an interesting aspect of the world’s oldest continuous maritime service will be highlighted. The men and women of the United States Coast Guard follow in the fine tradition of the brave mariners who have served before them. As sentinels and saviors of the…
The Shinnecock Bay Lighthouse was once part of the tallest lighthouses on the Eastern Seaboard. It filled the void between Montauk Point and Fire Island. It was located at Ponogue Point, on the northerly side of the Shinnecock Bay.It was built in 1857 and deactivated…
Sometimes things happen that seem inexplicable and the other day one of those things happened to me. That morning I recalled a story I’d read years before about three fishermen that had been attacked by a giant squid, also known as a Kraken. Later that…