Sailing 4 Smiles is a team of regular and part time licensed dental providers, sailing professionals and volunteers who are committed to helping others. During a stop in St. Augustine, S4S enjoyed the architecture, history and a visit to The Webster School Head Start Program.
Today, an estimated 90 percent of the world’s goods are transported by sea, with 60 percent of that – including virtually all your imported fruits, gadgets and appliances – packed in large steel containers.
A Brief History of the Shipping Container PUBLISHED SEP 30, 2021 10:52 PM BY ANNA NAGURNEY
Maritime Executive
A recently launched website from NOAA’s Precision Marine Navigation (PMN) program will improve the use and accessibility of NOAA’s marine navigation products and services. The website, Marine Navigation, includes links and short descriptions to NOAA’s various navigation resources, providing a one-stop shop that mariners can visit to get the data they need.
New NOAA website provides marine navigation resources in a central location
NOAA Office of Coast Survey
Historian David Cecelski illustrates with photos and family lore the story of fishers from Down East Carteret County who found their way to Lake Erie more than a century ago.
Whitehurst fishery: A Down East community on Lake Erie
CoastalReview.org
Under the leadership of Lt. Mike Day, local Coast Guard units marshalled a force of volunteer mariners to pick up survivors and carry them across the harbor to safety. When the local Coast Guard commander put out the call for “all available boats” to make their way to lower Manhattan to help rescue people stranded due to the closure of bridges and tunnels, the response was widespread and immediate. An armada of tugboats, ferries and other vessels quickly arrived on the scene and, in a collective undertaking of tremendous skill and grit, safely evacuated 500,000 people. It was the largest maritime evacuation in history, even exceeding the heroic achievement at Dunkirk in 1940.
9/11: Remembering the Heroes of the Lower Manhattan Boatlift
Maritime Executive
The Coast Guard and American Maritime: A Vital Post-9/11 Partnership
Maritime Executive
This article is scary. The experience is one of life or death and the advice given is worth heeding.
Commentary: My firsthand experience with an algal bloom
CoastaleReview.org
In a year with very few tropical systems, Hurricane Four of 1913 received barely a notice by the Raleigh office of the Weather Bureau of the United States.
A shipwreck believed to be the George W. Wells is shown on Ocracoke Island after being exposed by waves produced by passing Hurricane Teddy in September 2020. Photo: Cape Lookout National Seashore
1913 storm thrashed ships, and a rescue led to accusations
CoastalReview.org
Through Charles Farrell’s photographs of Sneads Ferry in the 1930s, historian David Cecelski learned the stories and people of Onslow County fishing village.
Our Coast’s History: Remembering 1930s Sneads Ferry
CoastalReview.org
Climate change is changing Earth in ways that are “unprecedented” and “irreversible,” according to a report released by the United Nations on Monday.
‘Unprecedented’ and ‘irreversible’: U.N. releases blistering assessment of the state of climate change
United Nations
Human-caused warming has led to an “almost complete loss of stability” in the system that drives Atlantic Ocean currents, a new study has found — raising the worrying prospect that this critical aquatic “conveyor belt” could be close to collapse.
A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds
The Washington Post
A Crucial System of Ocean Currents Is Faltering, Research Suggests
The New York Times
Climate Scientists Detect Warning Signs of Gulf Stream Collapse
EcoWatch
Seriously , Is this some what like the movie on this same subject ??
Many ocean lovers anchor to pursue their favorite pastime. While some are careful when anchoring, others aren’t. Carelessly or maliciously dropping anchors onto reefs causes serious harm to the reef below.
OPINION: CARELESS ANCHORING HURTS OUR REEFS
Florida Keys Weekly
Roger Long is an experienced yachtsman, Waterway cruiser and frequent contributor to Cruisers Net, Thank you, Roger, for this discussion of proper navigation protocols.
Garmin has a great auto-route product, but most not only don't know this, if they did wouldn't take the time to look at the manual to change the settings.
These are the same people who either don't know about their wake or misinterpret making a wake so they stop well into a marina setting thinking they are complying with a no-wake zone.
Boaters with a checkbook and little else will always be a plague to boating UNTIL a proper education requirement is instituted.
Historian David Cecelski found interviews from the Great Depression from a seaman from Ocracoke, a country doctor from Lake Mattamuskeet, a Norwegian dredge boatman in Beaufort, a washerwoman in Elizabeth City and others.
Hard times: Voices from the Great Depression on NC coast
CoastalReview.org
A new section focused on the Southeast region is now on the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit, a website designed to help people find and use tools, information and subject matter expertise to build climate resilience.
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit now features Southeast
CoastalReview.org
Powerful fighters that can test any anglers’ tackle and ability to land them, greater amberjack are often called “reef donkeys.”
Stubborn greater amberjack live up to ‘reef donkey’ name
CoastalReview.org
A bill that aims to both address the continuing vessel anchoring challenges facing some Florida counties while balancing the needs of responsible vessel operators became law yesterday with the signing of FL S.B. 1946 by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
With Passage of Florida Anchoring Bill, BoatUS Seeks Solution for the Long Haul
BoatUS
And so…this is not just a problem for AGLCA, MTOA, and Boat US members….it is an issue for used boat dealers, used cruising boat brokerages, and others in the marine trades industry.
I realize that there are more proponents than vexed property owners at noisy nautical partiers! The acqusition of maria properties by conglomerates for residential development of waterfront properties and subsequent raising of rates for both resident and transient boaters.
The dynamics of the rising cost of fuel, marina fees, mechanical maintenance costs and astronomical insurance premiums for the older boats that many cruisers have …oh and the general rise in the costs of all boats…may jolly well mean the demise of the middle American cruising public.
So now is the time for all of those associations, businesses and cruising public to challenge this newly enacted "seizure of anchoring rights" by Florida, Georgia, and any other political entity in Federal cour as interference with interstate commerce and any other justicable issue with the same vigor and zeal as the NRA protects American 2nd Amendment rights.
Boat US, being the "heavy hitter" must take the lead!
Alan V. Cecil
M/V SIGMACHI
Completing a challenging 1,141-mile journey down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in a 27-foot, flat-bottom skiff was rewarding for captains Greg Parker and Jeff Haddock.
Captains inspire others with ‘Don’t wait’ message
Greenville Daily Reflector
There are nearly 500 marine facilities throughout the Florida Keys with hundreds of liveaboard vessels at these locations. However, less than 30 percent of these facilities have pump-out equipment available. Monroe County has adopted policies to increase the availability of pump-out facilities in order to reduce pollutant discharges to protect our nearshore waters.
Monroe County Marina Pump-Out Outfitting Program (MPOOP)
Congress authorized the creation of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in 1919 and the entire waterway was completed in 1940. It extends 1,100 miles from Norfolk, Va., to Key West, Fla.
Waterway Infrastructure And Vision
The Waterways Journal
A longtime CRUISERS NET SPONSOR, historic Edenton is at the mouth of the Chowan River on the northwest shore of Albemarle Sound.
Pasquotank, Chowan rivers crucial to area’s history, recreation
The Daily Advance
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