On the Water

ICAST 2010 is coming up and we’re already hearing about new fishing rods, reels, lures, and lines from the likes of Berkley, Penn, Abu Garcia, Shakespeare, and others. Yesterday I got the latest news release from Pure Fishing, which gave a rundown on some of their cool new goodies we’ll see in Las Vegas next [...] …Read More

Athens Yachts sends word from Greece that the 112-foot Ferretti Custom Line motoryacht Pandora has a few specific calendar gaps that the owners want to fill in July and August--and that are thus being made available at a discount of more than 15 percen... …Read More

There's no such thing as a stupid question, right?  Please?  Above is the only label on each of Gizmo's main bank 8D batteries, and though it says AGM in big letters upper right, I'm not completely sure that they actually are Absorbed Glass... …Read More

Here’s something a lot of boaters don’t realize: When your boat breaks down and you call a fee-for-service tow company, they start charging you the minute they leave port to come find you—and they keep charging you long after they’ve actually towed you, until their own boat has returned to port. These charges can average $250 [...] …Read More

The Captain's Concierge sponsored the 2010 Best Charter Yacht Chef Competition late last month at the Newport Charter Show in New England. Ingredients were provided through the company's Farm to Yacht program, which aims to bring locally and responsibl... …Read More

Jeff Lebesch (left) and Adrian Johnson, first and second finishers in the Singlehanded Transpac. © Kathe Hashimoto Photography No matter where you go in the world it’s “never like this” when they switch the weather on. So it goes with distance events as well. The 2010 edition of the Singlehanded Transpac has been slow going much [...] …Read More

Sea Ray's Aquapalooza Signature Event, an on-water boating extravaganza, is scheduled for this coming Saturday, July 10th, in Austin, Texas. The Aquapalooza series is billed as the world's largest boating event, last year attracting 15,600 boats and 84,000 people at 123 events. The signature event is the centerpiece of the series, and this year takes place on Austin's Lake Travis. …Read More

Consummate veteran Skip Allen, who has won California-Hawaii races crewed, doublehanded, and solo, maintains that doublehanded is the hardest, harder even than singlehanded because when you’re alone, you know you have to make compromises. Doublehanded, he says, “You feel obligated for your partner’s sake to keep pushing as hard as you can.” The quote is approximate, [...] …Read More

More and more charter yachts are making promotional videos these days, but rarely do I see one so polished and well thought out as this new upload from Sayang, a 54-foot sailing yacht that charters in the British Virgin Islands. I was last aboard her a... …Read More

It's just a draft  -- artist I'm not -- but maybe someone out there in Panbo land can craft this into something fun for a hat and business card?  The graphic idea is an electronic wave turning into an ocean wave, but I'm open to another des... …Read More