On the Water

Sea Ray Boats announced the launch of its new website PAWS, an acronym for Pet And Water Safety. I’m reading this in Soundings Trade-Only (hat tip to Kim Kavin, or maybe to her dogs Floyd and Stella) and thinking, someone at Sea Ray must be reading Boatermouth because didn’t I just post about the awesomeness of dogs [...] …Read More

There were people who wanted to see this dragged through the courts for one more round, but it can’t really, really, really be wrong to hang it up and move on without finding out what’s in that can of worms. The word from BMW Oracle Racing and Golden Gate Yacht Club, Defenders to be in [...] …Read More

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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