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    • CURRENT LOCAL NOTICES TO MARINERS

      Here are the latest Local Notices to Mariners and NAV ALERTS that are relevant to ICW cruising in Districts 5, 7 and 8, the OBX, AICW, OWW, Keys, GIWW and adjacent waters. Open each LNM link for the USCG notice and a chart for each location. Listed north to south to north. NAV ALERTS will also be posted on our Homepage.

      For previous Local Notices, go to the Specific State or Region on our Homepage

       

      Week 21/26

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:895.4, Canaveral Barge Canal Daybeacon 6 Set TRUB

      LNM: Off WW, Nassawadox Creek Danger Buoy K Offstation

      LNM: AIWW MM:557.0, Skull Creek Daybeacon 20 Set TRLB

      LNM: Off GIWW-West, Shoreline Ten Wreck Lighted Buoy WR2 Off Station

      LNM: Off WW, NWS Tropical Atlantic Marine Weather Briefing -Sunday, May 24, 2026 15:30

      LNM: Off WW, Davis Reef Light 14 Extinguished

      LNM: AIWW MM:961.8, Indian River (South Section) Daybeacon 174 Destroyed

      LNM: AIWW MM:557.0, Skull Creek Daybeacon 20 Destroyed

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:895.4, Canaveral Barge Canal Daybeacon 6 Destroyed

      LNM: Off AIWW, Oregon Inlet Lighted Buoy 13 Offstation

      LNM: Off GIWW-East MM:282.4, Beatty Bayou Channel Daybeacon 1 Destroyed

      LNM: Off GIWW-East MM:182.6, Bayou Grande Entrance Light 1 Destroyed

      LNM: Off GIWW-East MM:355.4, ST GEORGE ISLAND LIGHTED BUOY 6 Destroyed

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:244.7, New River Inlet Closed to Navigation

      LNM: Off GIWW-West MM:532.5, Aransas Channel Light 14 Missing

      LNM: Off GIWW-West MM:629.8, Port Mansfield Channel Daybeacon 33 Destroyed

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:471.4, Port O’Connor Channel Buoy 2 Missing

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:562.0, Corpus Christi Baffin Bay Daybeacon 69 Destroyed

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:629.7, Port Mansfield Channel Junction Light PM Destroyed

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:563.7, Corpus Christi Baffin Bay Light 75 Destroyed

      LNM: Off GIWW-West MM:667.3, Laguna Madre Channel Light 9 Set TRLB

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:629.7, Port Mansfield Channel Junction Light PM Set TRLB

      LNM: Off AIWW, St Marys Entrance Lighted Buoy 4 Offstation

      LNM: Off WW, NWS Tropical Atlantic Marine Weather Briefing for Thursday, MAY 21, 2026 17:45

      LNM: Off GIWW-East, Dog River Channel Daybeacon 5 Destroyed

      LNM: AIWW MM:155.4, Goose Creek Light 19 Destroyed

      LNM: AIWW MM:841.4, Ponce De Leon Cut Daybeacon 8 Damaged

      LNM: AIWW MM:382.9, Little River-Winyah Bay Light 53 Set TRLB

      LNM: Off GIWW-East MM:71.9, Gulfport Ship Channel Light 47 Missing

      LNM: Off , New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway Daybeacon 128 Shoaling

      LNM: Off AIWW, Roanoke Sound Channel Bouy 16A Missing

      LNM: Off AIWW, Roanoke Sound Channel Light 17 Extinguished

      LNM: Off GIWW, Port Manatee Channel Inbound Range Rear Light is Dim

      LNM: Off GIWW, Big Bend Channel Light 4 Extinguished

      LNM: Off GIWW-West MM:629.7, Port Mansfield Channel Daybeacon 32 Destroyed

      LNM: AIWW MM:261.8, New River – Cape Fear River Daybeacon 76 Destroyed

      LNM: Off OWW MM:61.4, Lake Okeechobee (Rt 2) Daybeacon 94 Missing

      LNM: OWW MM:39.3, Lake Okeechobee (Rt 2) Light 2 Missing

      LNM: Off GIWW-West MM:541.5, Corpus Christi Channel Light 44 Destroyed

      LNM: GIWW-East MM:173.2, Pensacola-Mobile Buoy 21 Offstation

      LNM: GIWW-East MM:173.4, Pensacola-Mobile Buoy 19 Offstation

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:628.4, Land Cut-Arroyo Colorado Daybeacon 70 Offstation

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:470.9, Folly River Buoy 4 Offstation

      LNM: Off GIWW MM:74.4, New Pass Channel Daybeacon 9 Set TRUB

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:468.0, Hog Island Reach Channel Lighted Buoy 42 Offstation

      LNM: AIWW MM:329.6, Cape Fear River – Little River Buoy 76 Relocated

      LNM: AIWW MM:330.4, Cape Fear River – Little River Buoy 80A Relocated

      LNM: AIWW MM:330.5, Cape Fear River – Little River Buoy 81 Relocated

      LNM: AIWW MM:329.7, Cape Fear River – Little River Light 77 Relocated

      LNM: AIWW MM:326.7, Cape Fear River – Little River Warning Daybeacon Relocated

      LNM: AIWW MM:329.7, Cape Fear River – Little River Light 77 Changed

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:227.7, Bogue Inlet Lighted Buoy 1 Relocated

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:227.7, Bogue Inlet Lighted Buoy 2 Relocated

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:227.8, Bogue Inlet Lighted Buoy 3 Relocated

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:227.8, Bogue Inlet Buoy 4 Relocated

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:227.8, Bogue Inlet Buoy 5 Relocated

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:228.0, Bogue Inlet Lighted Buoy 6 Relocated

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:228.1, Bogue Inlet Lighted Buoy 7 Relocated

      LNM: OWW MM 94 Ortona Diving Operations May 20-21, Caloosahatchee River, FL

      LNM: Off GIWW-West MM:667.3, Laguna Madre Channel Light 9 Missing

      LNM: Off WW, Rollinson Channel Light 30 Set TRLB

      LNM: Off WW, Deep Creek Daybeacon 9 Missing Dayboards

      LNM: Off WW, Deep Creek Light 4 Missing Dayboards

      LNM: Off WW, James River Channel Light 98 Extinguished

      LNM: Off WW, James River Channel Light 10 Destroyed

      LNM: Off AIWW, Hungar Creek Lighted Wreck Buoy WR2 Missing

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:668.5, Brownsville Channel Light 30 Extinguished

      LNM: Off GIWW-West, Matagorda Ship Channel Light 59 Damaged

      LNM: Off GIWW, Egmont Channel Lighted Buoy 3 Extinguished

      LNM: AIWW MM:227.7, Bogue Inlet Buoy 17 Offstation

      LNM: AIWW MM:382.9, Little River-Winyah Bay Light 53 Missing

      LNM: Off GIWW-East MM:163.7, Perdido Pass Buoy 9 Offstation

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:431.6, Five Fathom Creek Daybeacon 14 Damaged

      LNM: AIWW MM:731.9, Gunnison Cut Light 53 Missing

      LNM: AIWW MM:572.8, Walls Cut Light 44 Damaged

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:432.5, Five Fathom Creek Daybeacon 12 Damaged

      LNM: Off WW, Mulberry Creek Light 1 Destroyed

      LNM: Off WW, Chickahominy River Channel Buoy 21 Offstation

       

      Week 20/26

      LNM: Off WW, Crystal River Entrance Daybeacon 7 Missing

      LNM: GIWW MM:129.8, The Narrows Daybeacon 38 Destroyed

      LNM: Off WW, NWS Tropical Atlantic Marine Weather Briefing for Thursday, MAY 17, 2026 20:45

      LNM: Off AIWW, Thimble Shoal Lighted Buoy 5 Offstation

      LNM: Off WW, Southern Passage Daybeacon 5 Destroyed

      LNM: Off WW, Gulf Harbors North Channel Daybeacon 4 Destroyed

      LNM: AIWW MM:780.0, San Sebastian River Daybeacon 3 Destroyed

      LNM: St. Johns River MM:87.6, Stephens Point Light 45 Destroyed

      LNM: Off GIWW-East MM:81.3, Back Bay Of Biloxi Daybeacon 10 Leaning

      LNM: AIWW MM:843.0, Ponce De Leon Inlet Lighted Buoy 10 Extinguished

      LNM: Off WW, Key Largo Daybeacon 37 Destroyed

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:468.0, Hog Island Reach Channel Lighted Buoy 42 Offstation

      LNM: Off AIWW MM:267.4, Banks Channel Daybeacon 5 Temporarily Discontinued

      LNM: AIWW MM:806.7, Fox Cut Light 3 Destroyed

      LNM: AIWW MM:280.2, New River – Cape Fear River Buoy 121 Re-Established

      LNM: Off , Chickahominy River Channel Buoy 14 Offstation

      LNM: Off WW, Chickahominy River Channel Buoy 10 Offstation

      LNM: Off , Chickahominy River Channel Buoy 8 Offstation

      LNM: OWW MM:137.6, Caloosahatchee River Daybeacon 60 Missing

      LNM: AIWW MM:806.7, Fox Cut Light 3 Destroyed

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:629.7, Port Mansfield Channel Daybeacon 30 Destroyed

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:455.6, Matagorda Bay Light 3 TRLB

      LNM: GIWW MM:28.4, Boca Grande Yacht Basin Channel Light 7 Set TRLB

      LNM: GIWW-East MM:98.2, Round Island South Channel Light 3 Missing

      LNM: Off GIWW-East, Arlington Channel Range Front Light Extinguished

      LNM: OWW MM 122 Franklin Lock Closure, TODAY, 8am-Noon, May 13

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:470.5, Matagorda Bay Buoy 50 Missing

      LNM: GIWW-West MM:455.6, Matagorda Bay Light 3 Destroyed

      LNM: Off AIWW, Hungar Creek Lighted Wreck Buoy WR7 Offstation

      LNM: Off AIWW, Hungar Creek Lighted Wreck Buoy WR5 Missing

      LNM: OWW MM 122 Franklin Lock Closure, TOMORROW, 8am-Noon, May 13

      LNM: AIWW MM:716.5, Amelia River Lighted Buoy 10 Improper Characteristics

      LNM: GIWW MM:84.0, Siesta Key-Tampa Bay Daybeacon 34 Missing

      LNM: AIWW MM:989.5, Great Pocket Daybeacon 12 Destroyed

      LNM: Off AIWW, Cooper River Lighted Buoy 83 Extinguished

      LNM: Off WW, Chincoteague Channel Lighted Buoy 24 Offstation

      LNM: OWW MM 122 Franklin Lock Closure, 8am-Noon, May 13

       

      Week 39/23

      LNM: Alt ICW MM 7, Long Term Deep Creek Bridge Replacement, Dismal Swamp Canal, NC

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    • Southeast Marine Fuel Best Prices as of May 20

      This week’s lowest current marina fuel prices as of May 20
              Diesel Range: $4.69 to $7.39 Lowest @ Wacca Wache Marina in (South Carolina)
              Gas Range: $4.57 to $5.99 Lowest @ Centerville Waterway Marina in (Virginia to North Carolina)
      Remember to always call the marina to verify the current price since prices may change at any time. Also please let us know if you find a marina’s fuel price has changed via the Submit News link.

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      All Regions (Price Range $4.69 to $7.90)

      $4.69 Wacca Wache Marina (05/19)
      $4.85 Freeport Marina (05/18)
      $4.89 Dudley’s Marina (05/18)

      Lowest By Region

      Virginia to North Carolina (Price Range $5.20 to $6.00)

       

      North Carolina (Price Range $4.89 to $6.90)

       

      South Carolina (Price Range $4.69 to $7.39)

      $4.69 Wacca Wache Marina (05/19)
      $4.85 Freeport Marina (05/18)
      $4.99 Myrtle Beach Yacht Club (05/18)

       

      Georgia (Price Range $4.99 to $6.25)

       

      Eastern Florida (Price Range $4.91 to $7.30)

      $4.91 Port Consolidated (05/18)
      $5.25 LukFuel (05/18)
      $5.26 Anchor Petroleum (05/18)

       

      St Johns River (Price Range $5.15 to $7.90)

       

      Florida Keys (Price Range $5.20 to $7.00)

       

      Western Florida (Price Range $4.27 to $7.60)

      $4.27 Shields Marina (05/19)
      $5.10 Sea Hag Marina (05/18)
      $5.19 Twin Rivers Marina (05/18)

       

      Okeechobee (Price Range $5.54 to $6.41)

      $5.54 Gulf Harbour Marina (05/18)
      $6.41 Sunset Bay Marina (05/18)

       

      Northern Gulf (Price Range $5.39 to $5.45)

       

      Texas (Price Range $5.37 to $5.37)

       

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    • NHC: TROPICAL STORM CHARTS AND UPDATES

      The National Hurricane Center chart below updates automatically and shows the latest storm positions. Click the chart for the full NHC report. While port conditions are primarily for commercial mariners, they give a strong indication of the Coast Guard’s appraisal of the storm’s severity.

      Categories:
      • Category 1: winds between 74 m.p.h. and 95 m.p.h.
      • Category 2: winds between 96 m.p.h. and 110. m.p.h.
      • Category 3: winds between 111 m.p.h. and 129 m.p.h.
      • Category 4: winds between 130 m.p.h. and 156 m.p.h.
      • Category 5: winds of 157 m.p.h. or greater.
      Hurricane Season Port Condition Definitions

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    • May 24, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments

      June Tropical Cyclone Risk – Fred Pickhardt

      Fred Pickhardt’s Substack is free today. But if you enjoyed this post, you can tell Fred Pickhardt’s Substack that their writing is valuable by pledging a future subscription. You won’t be charged unless they enable payments.

         
       
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      The Atlantic Hurricane Season begins in June, bringing a historically low but serious early-season risk to mariners and Gulf Coast residents. While a named tropical cyclone only forms in June about once every 6 to 10 years, the highest risk area sits directly over the central Gulf of Mexico.

      If a June storm does develop, historical patterns show the most likely track moves from the northwestern Caribbean northwest over the Gulf. This leaves a 50/50 chance for the system to curve north, then northeast toward Florida.

       

       

         

      Click here for a look at the prospects for the upcoming 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

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    • May 24, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments

      IF I MAY – Janice Anne Wheeler, Sparring With Mother Nature

       
         
       
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      Welcome aboard !!— please know that this weekend is Memorial Day in the US, and this writer is wandering down memory lane…

         
      You subscribers are a lifeline!

      If you just found our very engaging little community, please read SPARS & SPARRING, .….it introduces my wonders and my wanders. ~J

      IF I MAY

      A bit of introspection as a milestone is noted and a long-gone parent still sorely missed

       
      		 
      		 
      		 
       

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      As a new boat dweller (Cruisers, we are called) I quickly became accustomed to surreal seasons of stunning, clear-water, creature-filled swims, new vistas, deserted islands, and a humbling, fortifying existence far different than I had ever known. It’s not a particularly straightforward life; constantly SPARRING WITH MOTHER NATURE takes wily stamina, but the highlights make it worthwhile. I’ve missed it.

      After two years on this one solid piece of ground with many WTF-could-possibly-happen-next moments, the circle of friends here are my lifelines. A Marine Industry guru described me this way and shared my May 10th Publication:

      Fortunate is the “amateur” (in the true and best sense of the word) boatbuilder who finds ways to live a parallel life concomitantly with a seemingly never-ending restoration project. For it is that boatbuilder who will find the fortitude and the balance not to be ground down by the project.

      — Phil Friedman For Yacht Builders, Buyers and Owners

      While carrying a tremendous amount of respect for Phil’s resume I’m not certain that fortunate is the word with which I would describe myself throughout the ‘seemingly never-ending restoration project’. Spending a fortune? Most certainly! Fortunate? Well, perhaps. Respected subscriber and frequent commenter Switter believes I am because of the acquired wisdom he eludes to, and the fortitude magnified.

      SPARRING WITH MOTHER NATURE came to be when a LOOSE CANNON contacted me in the way-south out-islands of the Bahamas because World’s Worst Homing Pigeon landed (and decided to stay) on my classic wooden sailing yacht; that journalist encouraged me to start my own publication. Two years later I offer lessons, ironies and correlations that most hard-working, adventure-loving, nature-worshipping folks can relate to no matter their origins. Most importantly, it gives me a creative outlet and a way to connect with humanity in a time when it’s not all that easy.

      Writing is simply what I am wired to do, a constant underlying wave of words and titles run through my brain, giving my life the balance that Phil aptly describes. People tell me they savor how I meld assorted elements together; many are distinctly surprised that even though they are NOT self-described “readers”, they look for my weekly commentary. I have never, could never, imagine a better compliment than that. You know who you are and my life would be less happy if you had not shared how you felt! Let’s all do that more often, eh? Give someone an easy compliment. Make them feel like what they do matters. It’s not hard.

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      So, IF I MAY, here’s what I have for you. May, for a quarter-century or so, has weighed down this heart. I wanted to share because our Secret Sparring Society is a tight-knit group and growing in numbers. On May 1, I celebrated my mother’s birthday. She would have been eighty-seven, created five years after my floating home just miles apart on opposite shores of the western end of Long Island, New York. Born Martha Ann Graves she became Marti Graves Wheeler, Home Economics and Third Grade Teacher, a parent who nurtured my first life all over Upstate New York. The second life she visited, in the deserts of Arizona and Montana, the third and longest, Colorado, appealed in its stark differences to all she had ever known and beckoned. On a snowy Memorial Day weekend my brother moved her out to me, where she built a wonderful world of her own. Diagnosed that same summer, Marti was a five-year Breast Cancer survivor until a second primary, Peritoneal Cancer, took her in a span of three spinning, impossible weeks on an assortment of hospital floors; we never left her side. Wedding invitations to a smart, smitten man never got sent. We lost her twenty-four years ago today at only sixty-three. As I approach that age, I am more and more aware of how lives fly by and how much like her I have become. It’s hard to believe I’m the age I am.

      Here, she is 53, I am 48 in my final year as a Colorado Chef & organic farmer.

      My mom could not have even remotely imagined what my fourth reinvented life would bring, the one where I am a writer/liveaboard sailor/boat maintenance apprentice. She would be pleased beyond belief that I had finally given in to my desire to write (and write and write).

      I believe, strongly, that she’s watching me, and I don’t say that lightly. I was embarrassed, sometimes, at her mom-in-the-bleachers cheering, rueful now because I thought her too enthusiastic, too devoted. Today I thoroughly understand there is no such thing as too devoted, I love that expressive passion. On a few things we were polar opposites but if she was disappointed, it showed only when I was grounded for the entire summer of my 16th year, or when, in her unflagging honesty, she divulged opinions I had no interested in hearing. Marti blessed me with a love of delicious food and beaches along with the ethic to stay in touch with friends no matter how one-sided that may be.

      Myriads of characters and creatures, some remarkably memorable and others best forgotten, contributed to who I am but she was the most predominant for the thirty-two years I had her; my best friend, companion and confidant during her time out west. One of our loyal readers from Down Under penned a comment I’m sharing because I’d love to share it with her but you who surround me are an excellent substitute:

      ……What I think is most distinctive about *Sparring with Mother Nature* is that it doesn’t set out to be memoir, even though it draws from observation and memory. You curate and present inspirational impressions. That’s its own craft. When I first talked about your work with fellow writers (outside of Substack), I compared it to a Robert Pirsig *Chautauqua* or reflective educational narrative drawn from adventurous experience. Not everyone adventures; not everyone reflects. Not everyone can do what you do regularly and fluently. Ruv Draba

      Thank you for staying aboard— there’s lots of space at the end to share whatever you want, too. Until next week, when we re-explore STEADFAST’s Bronze Age…

      ~J the accidental boatbuilder

      I have long not believed in coincidence, so do with it what you will. This is the bottle of wine I popped open to accompany dinner as I finished this up. Cheers.

         

      Whether you partake or not, sometimes these things are a kind of, well, weirdness that I rather believe in. Regardless, I would truly appreciate you ‘liking’ (that dang heart icon we’re so familiar with) & ‘restacking’ this work. The impersonal algorithms of Substack only pay attention to those, not the quality of the words nor the nature of the audience. So, it just takes a sec, affects you not at all and means that people who discover us may just help me make a living doing what I love. Wouldn’t that be grand?

      When you comment, I always both appreciate and respond to those thoughts. So take another sip of that coffee and type away. Thank you.

      OH WAIT!! THERE’S MORE! I just uploaded a YouTube video from last weekend’s BOOK DEBUT! Don’t resist this, it’s worth three minutes of your life, and then, buy the man’s memoir. Seriously.

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    • May 24, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments

      NOAA’s 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook – Fred Pickhardt

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      NOAA’s 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook

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      NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) has just released their 2026 North Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook which runs from June 1 to November 30.

         
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    • May 24, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments 26.0732,-80.15129999

      We ranked South Florida’s best sunset spots: Here are 10 worth your time – SunSentinel


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      https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/05/22/chasing-sunsets-here-are-10-top-spots-to-watch-the-sky-glow-in-south-florida-plus-photo-tips/

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    • May 23, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments 26.9291,-82.06339999

      Fishermen’s Village June 2026 Calendars, Punta Gorda, FL


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      Fisherman's Village Marina and Resort, Punta Gorda, FL

      There is always plenty to do around Charlotte Harbor. While berthed at Fishermen’s Village Marina, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, you are certain to enjoy visiting Western Florida’s beautiful Charlotte Harbor/Peace River.

      Fishermen’s Village JUNE Calendars of Entertainment/Events

      June 2026 Sunset Beach Club Calendar 

      June 2026 Fisherman’s Village Calendar

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      Click Here To View the Western Florida Cruisers Net Marina Directory Listing For Fishermen’s Village

      Click Here To Open A Chart View Window Zoomed To the Location of Fishermen’s Village

       

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    • May 23, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments 26.0732,-80.15129999

      Strong winds, foul smells: Record seaweed will muck up beaches for Memorial Day weekend – SunSentinel


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    • May 23, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments

      Don’t get complacent with tropical outlook; ‘it only takes one’ – CoastalReview

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    • May 23, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments

      The Three “P’s” of Marine Fire Safety – Chubb

      https://www.chubb.com/ca-en/individuals-families/resources/the-three-ps-of-marine-fire-safety.html

      The three “P’s” of marine fire safety

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      When spending time with friends and family on your boat or yacht, everyone’s enjoyment and safety should be your top priorities. As the frequency of recreational marine fire-related accidents has increased, so have the injuries and deaths associated with them. To keep yourself, your family, and your friends safe while aboard your boat or yacht, it’s important to abide by safe boating practices, particularly fire safety, so you can enjoy your time on the water and make it back to the dock safely for your next adventure.

       

      Below, we’ve outlined the three “P’s” of marine fire safety every boater should follow.

      Prepare

      Prevent

      • Install smoke and CO detectors in the cabin and other enclosed compartments.
      • Install automatic fire suppression system in the engine room. This might also save you money on your insurance premiums – contact your broker for details.
      • Inspect the wiring on battery terminals and breaker panels on high-amperage circuits. If necessary, obtain an electrical inspection or survey.

      Protect

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    • May 23, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments

      How To Dock a Boat In 4 Simple Steps – BoatUS

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      BoatUS Magazine’s Mike Vatalaro teaches you to how to bring your outboard- or sterndrive-powered boat alongside a dock or bulkhead in four simple steps. Learning how to dock a boat, particularly to come alongside a bulkhead or approaching the gas dock, doesn’t have to be difficult. We’ll docking a boat down to four simple steps to help ensure your success. Go out and practice docking your own boat, and it should become easy. Read more at https://www.boatus.com/expert-advice/…

       

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    • May 21, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments 33.3735,-79.28859999

      SCDNR to conduct courtesy boat inspections during Memorial Day Weekend – SCDNR


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      SCDNR officers will perform quick but thorough inspections for required safety equipment at public boat landings during the Memorial Day weekend. (SCDNR photo)

      In an effort to keep people and waterways safe during the Memorial Day Weekend, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Law Enforcement Division will be conducting courtesy boat inspections at public boat landings around the state.

      The Memorial Day holiday kicks off the summer boating season and is one of the busiest times of the year for South Carolina lakes and waterways, and officers want to do everything possible to keep everyone’s weekend fun and safe.

      SCDNR boating safety and enforcement officers will perform quick but thorough inspections for required safety equipment and proper boat and motor registrations. Those who are not in compliance with safety regulations or registration requirements will not be ticketed during the complimentary inspections. Instead, they will be given an opportunity to correct the problem before they launch their boat. SCDNR officers will also be available to answer questions and give boaters tips on how to stay safe on the water.

      To report boating violations such as reckless operation or an intoxicated boat operator, call the SCDNR toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-922-5431 or dial #DNR on your cellular phone.

      For a copy of South Carolina’s boating regulations, to find out about local boating safety courses, or to obtain a free float plan form, contact the SCDNR boating safety office at 1-800-277-4301 or visit http://www.dnr.sc.gov/education/boated.html.

      Memorial Day Weekend boat inspection locations:

      Saturday, May 23:

      • Anderson County: Twin Lakes Landing, Lake Hartwell, 9AM-11AM
      • Charleston County: Wapoo Cut Landing, Intracoastal Waterway (ICW), 9AM-11AM
      • Greenwood County: SC Highway 72 Landing at Break on the Lake, Lake Greenwood, 9AM-11AM
      • Horry County: Little River Landing, 9AM-11AM
      • Lexington County: Lake Murray Dam Landing, 9AM-11AM
      • York County: Ebenezer Park/Lake Wylie, 9AM-11AM
      • Beaufort County: Battery Creek Boat Landing, 9AM-11AM

      Sunday, May 24:

      • Beaufort County: Lemon Island Boat Ramp, 9AM-11AM
      • Charleston County: Remley’s Point, 9AM-11AM
      • Clarendon County: Alex Harvin Landing, Lake Marion, 9AM-11AM
      • Colleton County: Bennett’s Point Landing, 9AM-11AM
      • Kershaw County: Clearwater Cove Landing, Lake Wateree, 9AM-11AM
      • McCormick County: Dorn Landing, Lake Thurmond, 9AM-11AM
      • Berkeley County: Amos Gourdine/Russellville Landing, 9AM-11AM

      Monday, May 25:

      • Charleston County: Limehouse Landing, 9AM-11AM
      • Georgetown County: Carroll Ashmore Campbell Marine Complex Landing, 9AM-11AM
      • Lexington County: Lake Murray Dam, 9AM-11AM
      • Pickens County: South Cove Landing, Lake Keowee, 9AM-11AM
      • York County: Ebenezer Park/Lake Wylie, 9AM-11AM

      Cheyenne Twilley

      Chief of Education, Outreach, and Information

      South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

      TwilleyC@dnr.sc.gov

      260 D Epting Ln, West Columbia, SC 29172

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    • May 21, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments 30.1936,-85.6839999

      TowBoatUS Expands into Panama City, Strengthening Assistance for Recreational Boaters


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      TowBoatUS Expands into Panama City, Strengthening Assistance for Recreational Boaters  

      Capt. Daimin Barth adds fourth TowBoatUS port to ownership portfolio along Florida’s Panhandle 

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      PANAMA CITY, Fla. – May 20, 2026 – TowBoatUS, North America’s largest network of on-water towing ports, announced today that U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain Daimin Barth has opened his fourth TowBoatUS port, TowBoatUS Panama City, continuing the brand’s growth to service it’s more than 152,000 BoatUS members across the state of Florida. 

      Located in the heart of Panama City Beach, the port offers 24/7 on-water support to recreational boaters, including towing, fuel delivery, battery jumps, and soft ungroundings. Long-distance towing services beyond service areas listed on BoatU.S. member service locator may be available based upon conditions and availability. Separate from serving BoatUS Towing Members, the port also offers salvage, repairs, and prop disentanglement. 

      “As a captain-turned-port owner, I take pride in building on my experience responding to distressed boaters and know firsthand how fast response times can make all the difference,” said Barth. “With three existing locations across the Florida panhandle, we’ve strategically extended our reach geographically to better allow us to cover the region and respond to members quickly and when they need us most.”  

      The port will operate four TowBoatUS red response vessels crewed by U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captains, who are ready to respond to service calls. Vessels are strategically stationed at Sun Harbor Marina, Treasure Island Marina, a private dock in Parker, and on a trailer to service Deer Point Lake as well as other landlocked bodies of water. This distributed coverage allows the team to efficiently serve the entire Panama City Beach and Panama City area, reducing response times and ensuring help is always close by. The fleet ranges from 24 to 33 feet, enabling effective service in both shallow and deep-water conditions. 

      Much like an auto club for recreational boat owners, Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) offers on-water towing memberships for $215/year for saltwater. In addition to a BoatUS Towing Membership, members also receive more than 25 valuable BoatUS benefits including a subscription to award-winning BoatUS Magazine, free DSC-VHF radio registration and more. 

      To request on-water assistance, boaters can call the BoatUS toll-free 24/7 Dispatch Center at 800-391-4869, download the free BoatUS App, which connects boaters to the closest local towing captain, call TowBoatUS Panama City directly at (850) 697-8909, or hail on VHF radio Ch. 16. 

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      Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) is the nation’s leading advocacy, services and safety group for recreational boaters. We provide more than 740,000 members with a wide array of helpful services, including 24-hour on-water towing that gets boaters safely home when their boat won’t, as well as jump-starts, fuel delivery, and soft ungroundings. The TowBoatUS towing fleet is North America’s largest network of towing ports with more than 330 locations and over 630 red towboats, responding to more than 110,000 requests for assistance each year. To learn more about becoming a TowBoatUS member, visit BoatUS.com/Towing, and to find a TowBoatUS location closest to you, visit BoatUS.com/ServiceLocator. 

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    • May 21, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments

      Celebrity Entrepreneur’s Death Spawns Insurance Shenanigans – Loose Cannon

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      Celebrity Entrepreneur’s Death Spawns Insurance Shenanigans

      Hoverboarder Hit by a Center-Console Five Years Ago; Epic Lawsuit Continues

       
      		 
      		 
      		 
       

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      Aaron Hirschhorn died on March 28, 2021, while piloting his hoverboard in Biscayne Bay, Florida. He had collided with a center-console. (Instagram)

      Five years ago, the owner of a Chris Craft Launch 38 collided with a guy on an electric foil hoverboard, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Aaron Hirschhorn, a celebrity entrepreneur, was survived by his wife Karen Nissim and their three young children

      Insurance companies for the Chris Craft owners denied the Hirschorn family’s claim for compensation, spawning a legal battle so epic that it would rival the upcoming summer movie Odyssey with a legion of suit-wearing attorneys instead of helmeted Greek heroes. At stake is a $66 million arbitration award.

      “The insurers denied coverage for the subject accident, declined to pay any amount on the claim, and refused to defend their insureds in litigation,” Lawyers for Karen Nissim wrote. In other words, the lead insurance company tried to walk away from their own clients on the basis of a couple technicalities—a move barred under Florida law.

      Florida’s so-called “anti-technical” statute is “designed to prevent the insurer from avoiding coverage on a technical omission playing no part in the loss.”

      The recalcitrant insurance company is defendant Yachtinsure Services, a managing general agent and claims-management firm representing “actual insurers” Clear Blue Specialty Insurance and Aspen American Insurance Company, who each provided coverage to one of the two partners that owned Caprice.

      (At this point it should be noted that one of the owners himself died a few months before the accident.)

      According to the lawsuit, Yachtinsure refused to settle the claim against itself and the two companies or defend them in court.

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      Yachtinsure denied the claim under the dead owners’s policy because the live owner, who was operating the vessel, was supposedly an “unapproved operator.” This, even though the live owner’s separate policy—also administered by Yachtinsure— specifically listed live owner Randy Harmat as an operator.

         

      So how did Yachtinsure deny coverage under the Harmat policy listing him as an operator? Kissim’s lawyers take up the story:

      Coverage for the Harmat Policy claim was denied on the purported grounds that there was a “misrepresentation and failure to disclose material information related to a prior loss involving the Vessel.” The purported “misrepresentation” that justified its denial of the claim was the “fail[ure] to answer the question” on the insurance application whether “the vessel suffered any damage or undergone repairs in the last five years.”

         
      Which, of course, raised the question: If this were an issue, why was the policy issued to Harmat in the first place? Especially after the answer blocks appear to have been filled in, then erased.

      In May 2022, an arbitrator apportioned blame in the accident, deciding that Hirschhorn was 25 percent at fault, while the estate of the guy who died before the accident happened was 75 percent at fault. Based on Hirschhorn’s young age—he was 42 when he died—and the likelihood of future earnings, the arbitrator ruled that his family was entitled to $66 million even after factoring Hirschhorn’s own culpability.

      Then in January 2024, Harmat the living owner agreed to the same settlement under the ancient legal doctrine of any party not at the table is on the menu.

      Actually, it is called a Coblentz agreement, which refers to a negotiated consent judgment “entered into between an insured and a claimant in order to resolve a lawsuit in which the insurer has denied coverage and declined to defend.”

      The agreement guaranteed that Hirschhorn’s survivors would not go after Harmat or his dead partner’s estate for the settlement—only the insurers.

      Here’s where it gets interesting. Both insurance policies were limited to $500,000 payouts, but lawyers for the widow argued that, under Florida law. Yachtinsure’s “wrongful refusal to defend the claim” mean that those limits went out the window and the entire $66 million was at play.

      Through its lawyers, Aspen Insurance argued that the arbitration award agreed to by the plaintiff and the boat owners “was not reasonable and is the result of collusion, fraud or lack of ‘good faith’.”

      Aspen, which represented the dead owner, also argued that his policy died with him and that Aspen, therefore, didn’t owe Hirschhorn’s survivors a nickle.

      That’s just a quick and undoubtedly incomplete summary of just one of five federal lawsuits arising from the untimely death of Aaron Hirschhorn. Some have been settled, but the central case had 284 document entries as of last week—with no sign of letting up.

      Chief takeaways: Read your policy. Ask questions. Realize that Florida’s anti-technicality law may not be the case in your state.

         
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    • May 21, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments 26.9291,-82.06339999

      “Jazz on the Harbor” Saturday June 13, Fishermen’s Village, Punta Gorda, FL


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      Fisherman's Village Marina and Resort, Punta Gorda, FL

      There is always plenty to do around Charlotte Harbor! While berthed at Fishermen’s Village Marina, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, you are certain to enjoy visiting Western Florida’s beautiful Charlotte Harbor/Peace River.

       

      Kathy Burnam
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      kburnam@fishermensvillage.com

      www.fishermensvillage.com

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    • May 21, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments 26.0732,-80.15129999

      Ahead of hurricane season, disaster recovery experts tell of crucial lessons from past storms – SunSentinel


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      State readies for hot weather during Heat Safety Week – CoastalReview

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    • May 21, 2026by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments 26.0732,-80.15129999

      Boating safety urged in South Florida ahead of Memorial Day weekend – SunSentinel


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