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Posts tagged as “Virginia Koetzner”

Older Boaters

By the year 2030 the US Census predicts 20% of us will be 65 or older. The New York Times is worried about the prospects of the financial challenge of so many of us living longer. If you look around your marina you’ll probably find…

Living The Dream

We’ve all seen pictures of people sitting in the cockpit with a drink in their hand, pictures that usually come with articles about living on a boat. Some of us read the articles and think about the lucky ones able to agree to abandon the…

Storms That Can Affect Boaters

For those captains delivering boats or moving their own boats in the late fall, winter or early spring, there’s always the possibility of a blizzard, but these are the people who regularly make the New York to Florida and back round trip and they are…

100 Years of Beach Replenishment

When you consider that New York State has been battered by close to 100 tropical and subtropical cyclones, nor’easters and other powerful storms since the 17th Century, it’s a wonder Long Island still exists. Yet, if you look at old maps and charts, except for…

BoatUS Captain Mitch Kramer

What do you call a man with serious interests in growing kelp, cleaning up beaches and the surrounding waters and partnering with Cornell Cooperative Extension, Stony Brook University, Adelphi University, the Town of Oyster Bay, Lazy Point Farms and Friends of the Bay? You’d call…

Ghost Fishing

Most of us have heard or read about “ghost fishing,” the trapping of fish, seals, seabirds, crustaceans, sea lions, whales, dolphins, turtles and other marine life in the accumulation of old, abandoned fishing nets, lobster, shrimp and crab pots, old, discarded rope and plastic debris…

Working Offshore

If you wanted to define water people you might say they need to be on the water, by the water, near the water or in the water. Water people find comfort sitting on a dock, swimming, fishing, crabbing, clamming, boating, surfing or just sitting in…