According to a recent Newsday article on the effects of climate change, Long Island is becoming shorter and narrower. Up close we can see the rise in sea level on our docks as high tides become higher, roads flood on sunny days and more intense…
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Have you ever thought about living on a boat? The canal boat life as experienced by the Brits on their narrowboats was the topic of a recent New York Times article. The English canal system started out as manmade connections between cities and towns on…
Since I last spoke with Bren Smith for the 2016 Seaweed article, he has written a book, “Eat Like a Fish,” which reflects his trajectory from a Newfoundland high school dropout who became a lobsterman, then a commercial fisherman in Alaska, went back to school…
As Amazon changed our shopping habits with some help from the COVID restrictions, these same rules that kept us at home away from other people moved new boat sales into the fast lane. The lockdown problems affected the supply of new boats because boat building…
The words from some of the fishermen, “Just barely.” The commercial fishermen and those in allied industries hope the return to near-normal this summer and the help they anticipate from the government will replenish supplies, bring back employees and bring back the market they’ve lost…
The old Huckins in the back of the used car lot had seen better days. Where repairs had been made they seemed to have been made by a person who had never been on a boat before. I did not expect a $4,500 boat that…
Some in the marine industry were not surprised at the pent up demand for boats resulting from the pandemic lockdowns in many parts of the country in 2020. What seemed harder to grasp was the proportion of women in the surge toward boat ownership. Women…
If you ask three people what water biking is, you could expect three different answers, including, “What’s that?” Water bikes have been around since the 1800s when they were called water velocipedes. More recently called amphibious cycles or hydrocycles, water bikes are propelled on land…
Working at jobs we see as rewarding and fulfilling never happens for some of us. We can go through several careers and jobs before some of us find the right path. The really lucky among us see their opportunities early on and focus on making…
My first serious boyfriend introduced me to a treat I never forgot. A diver, he sometimes came across lobsters in the ocean off Fire Island. His mother steamed the three he found at a wreck off Ocean Beach, provided lots of melted butter and showed…