Foul Weather Gear Essentials So, you don’t want to be just a sunny day sailor? Well, if you’re really into boating why would you be? In our area of the Mid-Atlantic only slightly less then half our days are sunny anyway so be prepared for…
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Driving over the Goose Neck Bridge at least four times a week, I keep noticing a fair-size Catalina-type sail boat abandoned on the southwest side, close to the base of the bridge. It’s obviously abandoned for convenience and is a critical danger to mariners using…
It came to my attention that NOAA Fisheries is proposing a 10 knot speed limit on all pleasure boats, between 35 ft and 65 ft., in order to decrease mortality rates of right whales. This would extend out 100 miles from shore. By the time…
You work hard and in your off time, you love taking your boat out into the bays to hang out and relax. Maybe your thing is fishing trips, anchoring up with friends, or just taking a quiet sail in the late afternoon. It’s all good.…
Aids to navigation have been around coastal waters since the first Neanderthal went fishing in a calm bay cove. Having caught all he needed, he paddled back in his crude willow branch and hide skin boat and found that low tide arrived, and a sand…
You love your boat. You keep it shining and mechanically perfect. That’s the way most boat owners are. But do you have the same concern for where you dock your vessel, be it at home or in a marina? The fact is you can avoid…
How many boaters have seen or been party to some difficult social interaction at sea? Answer – All of us or you haven’t been using your boat enough. Whether it’s in the marina, at the gas dock, drifting while fishing, cruising down the channel, or…
Gone are the days when the bays and inshore ocean were free and uncrowded and, if you ran into a boat issue, you could hail a passerby for a friendly tow or hail the Coast Guard on your marine radio to pull you off a…
If you are boating anywhere in the United States, you have encountered a bridge or two in your nautical career. It’s your “Approach” to them that makes all the difference when it comes to you, your vessel and your passenger’s safety. Just to clarify, each…
We love our country. We all do! You may love certain politicians.That’s your right. You are proud to project that we are Italian, Irish, Israeli, British, etc.? It’s great we live in a country where we can display how we feel as long as it…