How-to: Seamanship

Insane video of a bass boat crash on YouTube. …Read More

Shark season has begun on the Mid Atlantic coast and mako shark fishing can be incredibly exciting, but there are some basic ways you’ll want to rig your boat which are sometimes overlooked by new shark anglers. For once, this isn’t just a matter of catching more fish; in this case it’s as much about protecting your [...] …Read More

Spend enough time on the water and you’ll see lots of weird stuff like this, um, tow boat helping out someone experiencing a break down, which we saw the other day. Check this out: No, this is NOT your average tow boat. I’m told by one of the guys on my boat that moments after snapping this shot, [...] …Read More

Nordhavn Australasia sales manager Peter Devers wrote recently on the Nordhavn website …Read More

Giant, wing-masted trimarans in the America’s Cup, hydrofoilers busting 50 knots in the Med, these innovations open a window onto a gee-whiz future that turns me on. But they don’t answer one question: Will we, or will we not in that future, still have with us the racing classics of yore? For every Dorade that inspires [...] …Read More

There’s a hot new communication method available to boaters and fishers, because DeLorme and SPOT not interface to allow text messaging from afar, be it on your boat in the middle of the ocean or a mountaintop lake. SPOT satellite messengers have required you to pre-program your texts up to now, but the Earthmate PN-60w is [...] …Read More

Over the holiday weekend we got checked by the watercops for life jackets and safety gear by the DNR (marine) police, while chumming for stripers in Eastern Bay. We’d only been there for a half hour or so and already dropped a 26 inch fish into the cooler, so we were pretty happy with the way the [...] …Read More

History often leaves loose ends. I have my own copy of this flag, the Serapis flag, that I like to fly from time to time, and the thought comes to mind on Memorial Day of the years when the Republic, and its emblems, were still being invented, and this could pass for the American flag. The Serapis [...] …Read More

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center this week said the hurricane outlook for the Atlantic Basin this year is for an “active to extremely active” season.  While it’s always important to be prepared with a plan for how to deal with severe weather — not only at sea but while moored — the prospect of a worse-than-average [...] …Read More

Editor’s Note — Victoria Allman is the chef aboard a 143-foot megayacht and the author of the recently released “Sea Fare:  A Chef’s Journey Across the Ocean.”  This is the fifth in a series of periodic columns here on OceanLines featuring her irresistible recipes. Best of all for OceanLines readers, who are travelers of the [...] …Read More