Another thing about some of the new boats marketed today that pisses me off, other than the prices, ever thinning fiberglass construction and hallucious color choices (I actually saw a new boat with dark brown Naugahyde companion pilot and aft chairs, Yee Ha! That boat’s…
Long Island Boating World
Another New Year, another new start for all those promises we make to ourselves about how we want this next year to go. Whether it’s a job change, retirement, taking that vacation to somewhere we’ve always wanted to go, buying a new boat, or, the…
I hope 2026 is off to a great start for everyone. While sunny days on the water seem like a lifetime away, there are ways to stay sane until the spring. On the fishing front locally, Connetquot State Park in Oakdale offers opportunities to fly…
The 2025 saltwater wrap up was a mix of feast or famine it seemed on a variety of species. Striped bass spring fishing was pretty solid, but the fall run was nearly nonexistent in the surf and tough going on the boats. For whatever reason,…
OverviewBuckle up and layer up, because January and February are our true winter months here in southern New England. It’s when we get the most snow and, unsurprisingly, when there are the fewest options for getting out and wetting a line (unless of course you’re…
One of the great thrills a youngster can experience is their first ride on an outboard board boat with their dad or grandfather. For this writer it was on Lake George in New York-when I was ten and on vacation with my family. Dad rented…
It’s the 50th anniversary of the 1975 blockbuster movie Jaws. Not long after seeing the movie I went to the beach for a swim and the shark attack music kept playing in my head as I sheepishly looked around the ocean for a dorsal fin…
When it comes to teenage boating, you must keep yourself aware of how they are performing, especially with the boys who tend to be well, “Antsy?” Whatever. There is a better word, but I don’t have it right now.My grandsons grew up on the bays…
Hidden in the shallows of coastal tidal salt marshes are very special gems, some of which are 5 to 9 inches in length. They are not glistening diamonds; they are turtles, whose shell is adorned with diamond-shaped plates (scutes) with different colored growth rings, giving…
A cruise ship by any other name is a passenger liner. But not vice versa.Ocean liners were designed to transport passengers and deliver mail from one country to another. They were simply a mode of transportation, such as the TITANIC’s ‘unthinkable’ voyage from the United…