If you have or desire a boat that can do everything, you may wind up with a boat that can’t do anything — here’s how to know what you need.
Today’s Coastal Review: A boat is a boat, is a boat, is a boat … or is it really?
Our thanks to Ted Arisaka for notice of this proposed bill before the Florida Legislature.
SB 594: No Anchoring or Mooring Zones
This would be awful; it was filed 2/10/2025.
Ted Arisaka
SPARRING WITH MOTHER NATURE’s latest addition. I’m very honored that you’re following along. Thank you from the bottom of my writer’s heart. The voyages of a Classic Wooden Sailing Yacht can be transformational as well as educational. Since August 2024, STEADFAST has been undergoing extensive repair and refit. In boating terminology we are hauled out “on the hard” in Cambridge, Maryland, USA. What a great place to be aground! The archives contain extensive details on what we have undertaken. My weekly posts intermingle sailing tales with the challenges, lessons, joys and intricacies of restoring 90-year-old STEADFAST.….please weigh in as we manage and learn from this unexpected joust. Thank you! ~J
A Wooden Boat is a strong, reliable entity constructed with Mother Nature’s finest materials. |
Our thanks to Ted Arisaka for this good news for SC boaters.
Herring seine on the Roanoke River, 3 miles above Plymouth, May 1939. The Kitty Hawk and Slade seine fisheries had been in operation for generations, but would close for the last time a few days after these photographs were taken. Photo courtesy, State Archives of North Carolina Read more at Coastal Review, coastalreview.org.
Working Lives: The Herring Fisheries at Plymouth 1939
02/07/2025 by David Cecelski
TopSide Marinas, a family-owned company that acquires and operates high-quality marinas around the country, recently announced the acquisition of two marinas located on Table Rock Lake, Cape Fair Marina and Hideaway Marina. TopSide Marinas is A CRUISERS NET SPONSOR!
Selling or Passing On a Family Run Marina – TopSide Marinas
When all else fails, try journalism. The CQR Ain’t That Bad After All, Tests ShowPacific Northwest Sailor’s YouTube Series Takes Anchor Testing to a New Level |
Nothing to do with SE ICW, but a fun story!
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When all else fails, try journalism.
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SPARRING WITH MOTHER NATURE’s latest addition. I’m very honored that you’re following along. Thank you from the bottom of my writer’s heart.
The voyages of a Classic Wooden Sailing Yacht can be transformational as well as educational. Since August 2024, STEADFAST has been undergoing extensive repair and refit. In boating terminology we are hauled out “on the hard” in Cambridge, Maryland, USA. What a great place to be aground! The archives contain extensive details on what we have undertaken.
My weekly posts intermingle sailing tales with the challenges, lessons, joys and intricacies of restoring 90-year-old STEADFAST.….please weigh in as we manage and learn from this unexpected joust. Thank you! ~J
Even the most experienced boater must acknowledge the risks that fog poses.
Into the Mist
Bob Arrington, Jan 27, 2025
Great advise and suggestions: We were caught early one Sunday in a thick fog on the Chesapeake back in 1989 and used a watch for time, boat speed, water depth, and our paper charts to record where we should be along with two crew members watching from bow on both Port and Starboard.
Made it back to Annapolis without a big hitch although in our approach to Bay Bridge, the large dark area in the fog was a bridge pier not an anchored container ship "whew"… Should have known that given the water depth "LOL"
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