North Carolina’s first state record puddingwife wrasse
If you know what a puddingwife wrasse is, you are a true angler!
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BoatUS: What’s Different About Fall Boating? 3 On-Water Safety Tips
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Wearing a life jacket is important for fall fishing and boating. After an accidental overboard in cold waters, it could buy you just enough time to help you safely get back aboard.
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Road to Makatoka: Logging the Green Swamp, 1910-1930
The Waccamaw Lumber Co.’s mill, Bolton, N.C., early 20th century. From Waccamaw Lumber Co. Photographs and Journal, Rubenstein Library, Duke University
Road to Makatoka: Logging the Green Swamp, 1910-1930 by David Cecelski
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Luxury Accommodations at Twin Dolphin Marina, off Tampa Bay on the Manatee River
Twin Dolphin Marina, A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, sits perched on the southern shores of Manatee River, just short of the Highway 41 Business bridge. We get lots of praise for this fine marina and their commitment to facility upgrades, see FOCUS ON.
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How to Radio for Help in a Life-Threatening Emergency – Cruising World
Making a proper mayday call will help facilitate a quick rescue. U.S. Coast Guard
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Shared Photo: Sunset over Skull Creek
Looking over Skull Creek on Hilton Head Island by Mike Britt
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MSIB re Causton Bluff Bridge Closures
Our thanks to Ted Arisaka for this Marine Safety Bulletin. See NAV ALERT: AICW MM 579.9
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Long a destination, Morehead City on road to change, AICW MM 205
The Atlantic Hotel, a long-gone Morehead City attraction, is shown in 1909. Photo: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina University Digital Collections
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New Sat Image Shows Extent of Aussie’s Progress More Than Three Years Later – Peter Swanson
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BoatUS Receives $10 Million NOAA Grant for Derelict Vessel Removal
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“The Salty Crab” Waterfront Restaurant Opens at Dowry Creek Marina, Belhaven, NC AICW MM 131.5
A longtime CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, Dowry Creek Marina is owned by the Zeltner family who want to roll out the red carpet to transients, offering whatever you might need during your visit. This highly praised and transient friendly marina lies off the AICW/Pungo River north of Belhaven, NC.
“The Salty Crab” Waterfront Restaurant Opens at Dowry Creek Marina in Belhaven
The Salty Crab Restaurant at the Dowry Creek Marina is Now OPEN. The picturesque new 5000 sq foot waterfront restaurant and bar served over 850 customers over the Labor Day Weekend as a steady stream of folks came by boat off the ICW and by road to enjoy the food and check out the new facility. Dowry Creek has plenty of dock space for visiting boats up to 195 ft with 9′ channel depth on the approach. In addition to 30 transient slips for overnight dockage, they have plenty of space for boats stopping in to get VALVTEC fuel and/or fill their own tanks at the restaurant There is also plenty of protected anchorage space in Upper Dowry Creek near the marina and easy access for dinghy parking at the pier. The Salty Crab features Chef Cody Johnson, and is open 7 days a week from 11 am until 10 pm serving a variety of seafood dishes, burgers, sandwiches, salads and more; and features a full bar with 22 beers on tap, a great wine selection and all of your favorite mixed drinks. Pizza, steaks and a full dinner menu will be added over the coming weeks in preparation for the fall boating season as the ICW fills with boats heading south towards the sunshine and warm winter temperatures. With the news, space is going fast, so make your reservations now if you want to reserve an overnight slip for the upcoming season.
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NOAA: Ocean Today – Rip Current Survival Guide Videos for Adults and Kids
The best way to survive a rip current is to relax and float – don’t try to swim against the current. Watch this video to learn more about what to do if you’re caught in a rip current.
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Maxeon Announces 3GigaWatt Factory in Albuquerque, NM
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Maxeon has announced a solar panel factory to be built in New Mexico, so that’s panels made here in the USA, a bonus, and with a potential production output of 3 gigawatts – which to put into context is 6.3 million of the 470W panels being made each year!
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Makers Air Acquires Staniel Air
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Praise for Windmill Harbour Marina, Hilton Head Island, SC AICW MM 558
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St Lucie County Artificial Reef Program, Fort Pierce, FL
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How Did Portugal Launch the Age of Exploration?
How Portugal’s Seafaring Expertise Launched the Age of Exploration During the 15th century, a small European kingdom with a population around one million—and holding notable advantages in shipbuilding, navigation and mapmaking—initiated an age of maritime exploration that reshaped the world. Find out how. Read More 
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Polynesian voyagers crossed the Pacific and settled on distant islands using navigation skills based on observing stars, waves and currents. This allowed them to locate more than 1,000 islands without advanced instruments. Read more. 
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Staniel Cay Yacht Club Important Dates of Closures, Staniel Cay, Bahamas
Even with these maintenance closures, the marina will remain available to boaters, just no services at the bar, dining, and cottage rental.
Please note the following important dates of closure:The SCYC cottages, restaurant, and bar will be closed for annual maintenance from September 17th – October 1st, 2023. They will re-open on October 2nd, 2023.
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New South Carolina Boating Law Strengthens Safety Requirements
South Carolina is currently one of only four US states with no boater education requirements. The new bill will add South Carolina to the majority of states that require boating safety courses for some or all boaters.
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- Reply to Rick
As the article points out, South Carolina is one of only 4 states that did not have a similar training requirement. Whether the boater training is actually adequate or not is open for discussion. IMHO, in person classes done by the Power Squadron or USCG Auxiliary are probably pretty good – the states that only require on-line computer classes that comply with the content standard not so much.
I lived in the Midwest until the mid-90's. My state already had a law back then. And like the South Carolina law, the requirement is for everyone whose birthday is prior to a certain date. Anyone younger than about 45 from my former home has to have had the training by now, or to get it if they acquire a boat.
Since most fatal boat accidents involve excess alcohol, I suspect that you are right that younger boaters in their 20's and 30's are probably involved in a disproportionate share of accidents. Rigorous enforcement of BWI laws would probably have a larger impact on safety than training of young people, but that doesn't make the training requirement a bad idea.
BTW, the USCG publishes statistical data on boating accidents and events like boat fires every year. Look on the Coast Guard website if you want to find it.
- Reply to Phil
As a follow up on my comment last month how about a breakdown on boating accidents by age responsible?
Without that data, we're just blowing smoke and can't be sure we're actually addressing the problem.
Anyone? - Reply to Phil
I would like to see some STATISTICS on boating accidents/fatalities from states that have these laws and those that don't. And do these laws make a difference? 16 years old or younger? Like driving a car, I suspect many if not most boating accidents are caused by older teenagers and those in their 20s.
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Scientist urges more Vibrio awareness as risk moves north
Vibrio is a vicious, flesh-eating bacteria that can kill within 48 hours of exposure to warm, brackish water.
Original locations of the 709 confirmed nonfoodborne V. vulnificus infections reported to the Cholera and Other Vibrio Illness Surveillance, or COVIS, database between 2007 and 2018 within 125 miles of the coast, in blue. Graphic: “Climate warming and increasing Vibrio vulnificus infections in North America” report
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