5 Must-Have Items for Spring Boating Spring has sprung! Or at least it has sprung in most locales. Some are still fighting through that last bit of winter slog (it’s almost over, Rhode Island! You can make it!). Here are five must items for spring you’ll want to have aboard. Alchemi Labs Bucket Hat We’ll take … Continue reading 5 Must-Have Items for Spring Boating
An Unconventional Exuma Itinerary There’s more to the Exumas than meets the eye. Check out this Exuma Itinerary to see parts unknown. Of the 60,000 visitors who travel to the Exumas annually, some 64 percent are repeat visitors. Many of these travelers crave the familiarity that comes with visiting the smaller, more rural islands in … Continue reading An Unconventional Exuma Itinerary
Vinyl Boat Wraps Protect your boat’s hull in a variety of colors and designs with the use of creative vinyl boat wraps. When a boat hull is created in a mold, gelcoat is the outer product that goes in first followed by the fiberglass layers. When out of the mold, it’s the gelcoat that provides … Continue reading Vinyl Boat Wraps
Red Tide is a menace with no simple solution The infamous red tide algae on Florida’s southwest coast has died or moved offshore, so beaches are open to visitors again. Data gathered during the 2018 event is showing why those blooms originate offshore, when they form and their routes to the shoreline. Researchers dispatched and steered … Continue reading Red Tide Updates
Fall shellfish festival season opens Labor Day Weekend. Louisana The shellfish festivals start with Morgan City’s popular Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival August 30th to September 3rd. MISSISSIPPI Mississippi’s Gulf Coast owns the action September 8-9 at Biloxi Seafood Festival. TEXAS The Galveston Island Shrimp Festival is September 28-30 where some 60 professional restaurant and amateur … Continue reading Gulf Coast Shellfish Festivals
Resorts World Bimini is just a hop, skip and a world away You don’t need to travel to the other side of the world. Adventure is waiting— and so much closer than you think. Come over to Resorts World Bimini. It is uncanny and hard to describe, but when you are here, you feel it. … Continue reading Resorts World Bimini
Will there be a new aquarium for Mote Marine? Stars appear to be lining up for a new Mote Science Education Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida, with a design that will catch the eyes of millions. Many power boaters and sailors are familiar with Sarasota’s City Island on Lido Key, where Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium brings … Continue reading New Aquarium for Mote Marine?
E-flares are a safer alternative to pyrotechnic flares that burn dangerously hot. When it comes to marine distress flares, compliance with current regulations might not be safe enough for some recreational boat owners. Current regulations call for recreational boats to carry three pyrotechnic handheld flares that can stay lit for 60 seconds. While buying a … Continue reading E-flares to the Rescue
This boating-friendly city on Florida’s Gulf Coast looks toward the future without forgetting its past. Just another reason to visit Tampa. Larry Falkif looked up and spotted an osprey off the port side and another over to starboard. “We rarely used to see these birds; now there are so many I don’t count them. They’ve more than made a comeback—they … Continue reading Trendy Tampa
If you’re a scuba diving enthusiast, your daydreams may feature a yacht, land-based luxury, racing fish-filled currents, calmer conditions, staggering depths, sunlight-filled shallows, inquisitive marine life or probably some combination of all of these. Whatever your preferred base and dive profile, add these six diving locations in the Southern Hemisphere to your underwater bucket list. Raja Ampat, Indonesia Off Indonesia’s West Papua province, the 15,000-square-mile Raja … Continue reading Go South for Scuba
Fall fishing in Hatteras The folks in Hatteras on North Carolina’s Outer Banks fish year-round. They keep an eye on the weather and take advantage of the good days to motor out to the warm Gulf Stream waters to see what’s biting. If you’re looking for some late-season fall fishing action and fine fall weather … Continue reading Fall fishing in the Atlantic
A derelict WWII Ship has been converted to a BVI dive site It’s one of the last remaining vessels to survive the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The YO-44, aka the Kodiak Queen, has been saved from the scrap heap and, instead, memorialized in the deep as the newest recreational dive site in the B.V.I. The Queen … Continue reading BVI dive site features WWII ship
My first trip to Montauk was not by boat. It was aboard what I called my “land yacht,” a 1965 Volkswagen Microbus I used as a part-time crash pad when I needed to put in some late- night studying for a college exam. I would park it near the campus, get a couple of slices … Continue reading Montauk, New York
