As the winter holidays near, we feel a change in the air. The days are shorter and the nights are colder. Change is part of life, sometimes welcome… sometimes not. We see changes over time in the maritime community. From a cultural standpoint, we see…
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People often see statistics as something associated with dull presentations about profit & loss statements in corporate boardrooms. But the recent 2024 Recreational Boating Statistics report offers the marine community a good deal of information that could make for safer boating in the future. There’s…
Marine insurance policies can impose various conditions and restrictions on the use of vessels, based on a boat owner’s needs and budget. These could include the geographic region in which a vessel is used or the time of year during which a vessel is used.…
What is a “magic pipe” in shipboard terminology? It has nothing to do with illusionists or entertainers working aboard cruise ships. Nor does it have anything to do with hiding illegal substances in coils of copper tubing in a cargo ship’s hold. Nor does the…
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…
Observing the way different vessels move through the water can be interesting. A 20-foot Flying Dutchman on a downwind reach at 8 knots seems to fly across wave tops with little more than a quiet “swoosh” to mark its tracks. In contrast, a 20-foot club…
Until the end of time, there will probably always be a friendly debate over which is better… sailboats or powerboats. Sailboat owners will argue that their day on the water is environmentally friendly, with only a small ‘carbon footprint’ from firing up a two-cylinder engine…
What does “seaworthiness” mean? That seems like an easy question. We usually think of seaworthiness in terms of a vessel that’s well-designed and well-built. What might come to mind is a heavy deep-vee hull that could comfortably make the canyon run in three-foot seas, while…
What is a captain? That might seem like a silly question to bring up, especially in a magazine where many of the readers are captains in one form or another, whether recreationally after buying a boat, or commercially, through accumulating sea time and sitting for…
The term “abandoned vessel” could bring to mind a number of different settings in maritime law. If we’re talking about a breakaway vessel drifting through a crowded anchorage after a fall Nor’easter, the urgency of the situation is obvious to most observers. The vessel is…