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…
Long Island Boating World
“A functional fishing machine, sturdy, reliant and built to take the worst weather and sweating in any kind of sea.” Ernest Hemingway When legendary author Ernest Hemingway decided to build his dream fishing boat, he chose Howard E. Wheeler Sr. to build it. Wheeler had…
The Maine lobsters that are so popular around the Christmas and New Year’s holidays are caught mostly by two person crews, the lobsterman and his or her sternman. The lobsterman runs the boat, hauls in the traps and has the financial responsibilities of the venture…
Highlands of Navesink was a natural vantage point for a lookout post. At 200 feet above sea level, approaching ships could be spotted at a distance of nearly 20 miles. During the 1740s, Great Britain and France and their allies were in a conflict called…
It’s a simple three-atom molecule element that covers three-fourths of the earth’s surface at depthsup to 6-1/2 miles deep. It’s mostly what you consist of. It’s what makes the planet look blue from outer space. It is the basic material of life but sometimes takes…
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…
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…