On the Water

I don't like what some Japanese companies, supported by their government, are doing to whales, but I'm smart enough to know that a reasonable alternative to Sea Shepherd's nasty headline above might be: "Furuno won't give (or sell) Sea Shepherd a new... …Read More

Management company Ocean Independence sends word from Athens that the 68-foot Azimut charter yacht Sea Wise, a 2001 build that joined the OCI charter fleet in April, has been destroyed in a fire in Greece. No cause for the fire was given. Thankfully, ... …Read More

Northrop and Johnson tells me that the owner of the 154-foot Delta motoryacht Mr. Terrible is actively seeking charter bookings for the rest of this summer in either the Bahamas or New England. To entice potential clients, Mr. Terrible is now being of... …Read More

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