Paddle Craft Safety… Canoes, kayaks, paddle boards, and rafts comprise a growing recreational boating category that features a variety of manually propelled vessels. Some look like surf boards, while others are small boats such as a rowboat and a dinghy. These economical vessels are much…
Long Island Boating World
October has been a great month offshore and mid-shore and ok inshore. Canyon fishing slowed a little. More due to lack of fishable days to get overnight trips in more than anything else. Couple with an amazing mid-shore and inshore bite, fewer people journeyed that…
Panic, according to Google word search is a “sudden sensation of fear, which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with overwhelming feelings of anxiety and frantic agitation consistent with an animalistic fight-or-flight reaction.”When you are aboard a…
Of late there have been a plethora of video postings on social media showing pleasure boats running various inlets in Florida and other states while confronting serious seas. Some of these postings are accompanied by infantile laughter and commentary. It seems as if those filming…
When maritime injury lawsuits appear before federal judges, they usually involve some form of physical proof that someone was hurt. A deckhand on a tug suffers a bone fracture from a watertight door closing on his hand. A stewardess on a yacht tears a knee…
We are set up for a superstar type of late fall through November and into December. October waters stayed warmer than usual, ushering in bluefish like we haven’t seen in years, while striped bass pushed in early last month as well. November’s relative chill will…
Certainly, tragedies abound that point to the urgent need for more understanding by boat captains about the forces of capsizing. There is a tremendous amount of data on “righting moments”, centers of buoyancy and gravity, thanks to the US Navy and the US Coast Guard,…
From the Jersey side of the New York Bight, along the Long Island Coast, Montauk Point, the shores of Block, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, and into the Sound, as every year goes by, we have been privileged to see the resurgence of ocean mammals. This…
Cold War era Soviet submarines frequently suffered calamitous disasters like those that plagued the Soviet Union’s Project 627 boats. And they were often their own worst enemy.The United States Navy launched the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine the USS Nautilus SSN-571 in 1954 that revolutionized undersea…
Imagine if the highly polished mahogany cabin walls of the Presidential yacht Sequoia could talk what they could say of the private conversations of some eight American presidents with powerful leaders from around the world for the period 1933 to 1977. The Presidential yacht Sequoia…