This is the famous photograph of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the world-renowned British engineer who revolutionized both the railroad and shipping industries. He achieved many firsts in engineering including the design of the SS Great Eastern, by far the largest steamship ever built at the time…
Long Island Boating World
Running aground was one of the major causes of shipwrecks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Entering New York Harbor, for example, required a sailing vessel to make a long funnel-like approach. According to Dr. Dennis Noble, writing in his book A LEGACY: THE UNITED…
Long Island Sound’s 1,300 square miles of water surface area is host to over 120 species of fishes. Its scup, striped bass, bluefish, summer flounder, hickory shad, black sea bass, tautog and so many other species provide fantastic opportunities for any novice or expert recreational…
Rogue waves are waves in open waters that are larger than the surrounding waves. They can cause damage to water vessels. They are caused when the currents or winds, or both, begin to travel at various speeds whereby the waves merge and create one single…
People often ask us how long we have been boating. Some are literally in shock, disbelief or just think we are plain crazy when we tell them the number of boats we have had over the twenty-seven years that we have been boating. Honestly, at…
In the 1997 film Titanic, the sequence of events involving the iceberg is both riveting and frightening. We feel the terror and helplessness of lookouts Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee in the frigid night air of the crow’s nest as they spot the iceberg too…
A couple of weeks ago I got a call from Frank, my wife’s cousins husband. Usually it’s our wives that talk with each other and Frank and I are kept up to date by them. In fact the last time we talked on our phones…
Well, still here in California but flying home soon. I’m not looking forward to the cold weather and all the wind I’ve been told about, but surprisingly (to me), it’s been cold here too. And I didn’t travel prepared for that. So, even if it’s…
Previously, we talked in the past about cell phones aboard boats and the issues thereto. And they are fantastic devices – and therein lies another issue. As the functionality of cell phones starts to rival computers (did I say “rival” – I should have said…
In this time of self-inflicted tariff wars, boating will take a big hit. You can bet on that. Inflation, already a problem heading into these declared tariffs, was already hurting the boating industry. I am not going to pose how I feel aboat (Get it-Aboat/About)…