On the Water

DBE! is my new shorthand for "Don't Blame Electronics!"  And the collision of Ella's Pink Lady with the Silver Yang off Queensland, Australia, last September is a terrific example (especially as no one got hurt).  I first heard about it in ... …Read More

A fishing buddy turned me on to this a while ago. Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences publishes daily surface temperature readouts for the entire seaboard, and more detailed ones for specific regions. Click on this link and check out your region from the list in the left column. You already know the reasons [...] …Read More

Edmiston and Company sends word this week that the owner of the 154-foot Amtec motoryacht Out is so keen to get more charter bookings this summer that he is not only dropping the yacht's weekly base rates by 15 percent, but is also willing to move the ... …Read More

What jumps out at me from the 23 June Protocol is that a door remains open to a match in 2013 rather than 2014, which still seems more likely. Also, there’s item 24.4: Racing Areas to be Shared: The racing areas for the Challenger Selection Series and the Defender Trials shall be the same racing [...] …Read More

How big were your kids when you put the boat away last winter? How big are they now that you’re on the water again—and do they still fit into the life jackets you have onboard? According to the 2009 Life Jacket Wear Rate Observation Study from the U.S. Coast Guard, which incorporates data going back to 1998, [...] …Read More

Fishing in Long Island Sound and the near by ocean is, according to long-time boating and saltwater fishing writer Kevin Falvey, blessed. And those of us who have hunted for stripers, blues, fluke, sea bass, and other species here will probably agree. Kevin wrote a book on fishing for these species and others, Falvey’s Guide [...] …Read More

The 207-foot motoryacht Force Blue, which Italian authorities seized last month on tax-evasion charges, was released from custody on June 21 and will be allowed to perform yacht charters this summer in Italy and along the Mediterranean coast. Milan-ba... …Read More

NOAA released a new and interactive Eessential Fish Habitat map this week, which shows locations of habitat, gear restrictions and closed areas, and species locations. This is version 2.0, and a few clicks confirm that NOAA’s worked all the bugs out of this system. It runs smoothly, allowing you to choose geographic region, fish species, and protected [...] …Read More

An angler fishing the 24th Annual Star Island Yacht Club Shark Tournament landed a 300-pound great white. His catch is landing him in hot water. He made the mistake of keeping the shark, which is illegal, and is now under investigation by federal authorities. (Originally reported in subscription-based Newsday.) I have a call into a [...] …Read More

Sunreef Yachts updated its Facebook page this week with the first-ever photographs of the newly launched sailing catamaran Ipharra. At 102 feet long, Ipharra will be the largest catamaran by far in the Sunreef charter fleet, whose previous flagship po... …Read More