On the Water

Here’s yet another post about dogs on boats, again courtesy of dog lover Kim Kavin. According to this post from the blog OhMiDog, a rescue vessel found Jaunita, a retreiver mix, aboard the yacht Tafadzwa, which had been adrift off the coast of New Zealand for over two weeks. Her owner disappeared overboard and is [...] …Read More

The first boat I ever owned was built of polyethylene, and it was a good fishing boat. In fact, it was awesome – for a 10-footer, that is. You can’t find a boat much smaller then the Leisure Life Bass Tender, and you sure wouldn’t want to take one of these out into an open [...] …Read More

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Ken Williams, who, with his wife Roberta, owns the Nordhavn 68 Sans Souci, reports that the 2010 cruising season for the boats of the Great Siberian Sushi Run (GSSR) is approaching. In an email today to followers of his blog, Williams reports that the boats, which traveled from Seattle, Washington to Osaka Japan last year, [...] …Read More

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If you have a PLB or an EPIRB aboard you feel safer knowing that you can send out a distress message, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could also send out non distress messages? That’s an ability offered by satellite messengers like the SPOT, and it’s the one advantage the SPOT had over traditional [...] …Read More

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A group of Australian waterskiers broke the world record for most skiers successfully towed behind a single boat. A total of 114 skiers from the Horsehead Waterski Club managed to get up and ride for a mile, sharing the glory of a world record on the waters of Tasmania. They held the line behind a 35 [...] …Read More

“Every year the City of San Francisco hosts Fleet Week, and we manage more than a million spectators on the waterfront. We have a history of managing the logistics, and with the America’s Cup the opportunity for a world-class spectator event is unparalleled.” Michael Cohen, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Economic and [...] …Read More