On the Water

You met Ronnie Simpson in this space as a young, former Marine, medically retired following a shoot-up outside Fallujah, prepping for the Singlehanded Transpac. He had a good race—finished second—but Ronnie lost the keel off his 30-foot Warrior’s Wish 800 miles short of completing his return trip to San Francisco Bay. The word now is, [...] …Read More

Bacteria in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay is a problem we’ve grown used to, and today there are new warnings out. According to the Baltimore Sun, so far there have been 24 reported cases of the Vibro bacteria causing gastrointestinal illness and/or skin infections this summer. In an average season about 30 cases are [...] …Read More

by Christine Kling   (Editor’s Note — Chris Kling is a sailor with with more than 30 years of experience on the oceans of the world. She’s also an English professor at Broward College, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the published author of the Seychelle Sullivan series of mysteries, including SURFACE TENSION (2002), CROSS CURRENT [...] …Read More

The custom-built, 72-foot sailing yacht Pacific Wave is offering a $1,500 discount on charters taken between November 1 and May 31, with the pre-discount base rates for those dates being the same as they were back in 2008. So, for two guests, the week... …Read More

The decline in the Atlantic menhaden population over the past few decades is staggering: An 88 percent drop in numbers between 1979 and 2009. The population that once measured close to 200 billion is down to less than 200 billion. The fish that some believe to be the most important in the sea is on [...] …Read More

It's not too early to book your Caribbean winter charter - especially at discounted rates. …Read More

If you could have the perfect outboard for your dinghy or tender, what would it be?  A diesel perhaps, because you’re already carrying hundreds or thousands of gallons of that fuel and because looking for and storing gasoline is such a pain in the neck, not to mention dangerous? I’ve long thought, for example, that [...] …Read More

Boats.com, BoatTrader.com, Brunswick are sponsoring a video contest to show what can be done with an aluminum boat. Grand prize is a Triton Storm 16, Mercury motor, and trailer. …Read More

I sort of knew that "shootout" was a poor word choice -- implying the certainty of corpses and so forth -- and I'm officially dropping it from the Panbo title vocabulary; it's too hard to be that certain!  A glaring example was omitting Furuno t... …Read More

Engel, Yeti, Igloo, Frigid Rigid, and Coleman all make marine coolers, but which one is the best? You’ve almost certainly used Igloos and Colemans in the past, since these two brands account for the vast majority of all marine coolers sold in the country. They’re also the least expensive of this crowd, by a long [...] …Read More