On the Water

WaterTop Unlimited, the firm that promotes the RIVA Racing HydroDrag events, notified media recently that the Fall Nationals, scheduled for November 6-7, 2010, would not be taking place at the infamous C-54 Canal near Fellsmere, Florida, but instead at the Water Ski Hall of Fame & Museum, outside Lakeland, Florida. Located right on the Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa and Orlando, that location is both high-profile and easy to find, and according to WaterTop's Tim McKercher, will take the HydroDrags to the "next level" of professionalism. …Read More

Editor’s Note — Victoria Allman is the chef aboard a 143-foot megayacht and the author of the recently released “Sea Fare:  A Chef’s Journey Across the Ocean.”  This is the third in a series of periodic columns here on OceanLines featuring her irresistible recipes. Best of all for OceanLines readers, who are travelers of the [...] …Read More

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I considered it a crime against the boating and fishing community when the Bimini Big Game Club closed its doors a while back, crushed by the economic downturn. Founded in 1947, the Big Game Club is a legendary outpost on the first stop across the way from Florida. With that and the Compleat Angler, Hemingway’s [...] …Read More

According to the results of a survey of personal watercraft (PWC) owners conducted by research firm MacKenzie Corporation, Yamaha WaveRunners are consumer's top choice for reliability. The blind, anonymous survey was conducted by MacKenzie Corporation's Consumer Research Division, and looked at purchase drivers and owner experience with the top PWC brands. …Read More

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Fair to say, many a lifelong sailor has never experienced 24 knots on a boat. Also fair to say, it takes a lot of 30-plus to turn out an average like that while logging 28,523 miles. On a new circumnavigation record. Which will, however, be computed for official purposes using, not the actual distance sailed, [...] …Read More

Cat lovers are prone to ask, Why not show pictures of cats on boats? Because cats hate getting wet more than life itself. A dog on the other hand, a good dog, is born to be on the water. Boat owners with good water dogs like to show this off. In my 11 years at Boating [...] …Read More

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How crazy are the French about long distance adventure sailing? Crazy enough that photographer Yvan Zedda could get a plane ride and a picture to be captioned thus: Flyby of the maxi trimaran Groupama 3 to the NE of the Azores aboard a Falcon 50 fleet 24F from the Naval Air Base of [...] …Read More