On the Water

Sometimes I guess you can just have too much of a good thing. The case in point here is Interlux’s new Compass varnish, introduced last fall, which incorporated a new, fast-drying chemistry. Unfortunately, it seems to be just a little bit too fast-drying. An OceanLines reader in North Carolina noticed cans of the varnish being [...] …Read More

Braid fishing line made from Spectra and Dyneema has changed modern fishing as we know it, but which is best? That’s a question that I researched heavily for (insert shameless plug here!) my latest how-to fishing book, Rudow’s Guide to Modern Jigging (available at www.getgup.com). Braid is an awesome invention for us anglers, because its reduced [...] …Read More

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The 2010 U.S. Triple Crown of Offshore race series kicks off this weekend, March 28th, as racers contest a 37-mile "sprint" (hey, these guys are endurance racers - 37 miles across the Pacific is a sprint to them!) from Dana Point, California to the town of Avalon on Catalina Island. …Read More

ESPN Outdoors announced it will broadcast its first ever completely live fishing show. The press release is right in that there’s nothing like being out on the boat, chasing fish. But I can’t think of anything I’d less like to watch than other people waiting around for the action. With “no editing, no setups, and no [...] …Read More

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Our recent piece by Jeff Siegel of ActiveCaptain about a novel dinghy anchoring technique stimulated quite a bit of discussion from readers and we even heard about another, possibly even better, technique from John Marshall, owner of the Nordhavn 55 Serendipity. Marshall discovered a particular product that makes the process of anchoring the dinghy off [...] …Read More

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The local paper brought sad news today from the water: Three dead on a houseboat, most likely of carbon monoxide poisoning. The source, a portable gas generator onboard. Having a portable unit in a closed-cabin boat is a bad idea. As a police spokesman said, “You have to take note; these generators give off toxic fumes. [...] …Read More

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