On the Water

A You Tube moment affords us the opportunity to put in a good word for the Sail Through Cancer Foundation, whose mission is to encourage boat owners to volunteer time on their boats to enrich the lives of cancer victims and survivors. Founder Dick Drechsler came through stage three neck and throat cancer himself, with [...] …Read More

Last year’s “Baja Ha Ha,” the fleet cruise from San Diego to Mexico, provides yet another impetus for all ocean cruisers to reconsider their liferaft situation. You DO have one, right?  And it HAS been maintained, inspected and re-certified, right? And you actually know what’s stored in it and how to use it, right? And [...] …Read More

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You’d like to see an unbiased review of the Avet HX high speed jigging reel? I don’t have one of these reels, I don’t know the Avet guys (for some reason we’ve never connected), and they didn’t send me one to check out – but I did get the chance to play with one while fishing [...] …Read More

Soyana clears a piece of hard. Photo by Christophe Jouany Usually when a tourist island launches a new event, the goal is to build tourist volume. At closely-held St. Barth, the thinking is different. This island of 8,000 residents, small hotels and a total of only 450 hotel rooms is running pretty much at capacity—but [...] …Read More

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Boaters are in a never-ending search for a high quality chartplotter with good ease of use, and my experience with a Northstar M121 multifunction display/chartplotter last week is something you should know about. Here’s the scoop: a few years back one of my project boats had a Northstar M84 on it, a unit identical to [...] …Read More

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Keeping on with the ethanol theme, I got an email from BoatUS today discussing the problems with the EPA’s possible approval of E15 gasoline. Here is the link featuring the BoatUs position on E15. You already know mine. (If not, I think it’s a sham.) The email brought my attention to an organization both BoatUs and [...] …Read More

Dave Robinson has a date with some trash under the Golden Gate this week. When? On the outgoing tide. …Read More