On the Water: News & Events

Bacteria in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay is a problem we’ve grown used to, and today there are new warnings out. According to the Baltimore Sun, so far there have been 24 reported cases of the Vibro bacteria causing gastrointestinal illness and/or skin infections this summer. In an average season about 30 cases are [...] …Read More

by Christine Kling   (Editor’s Note — Chris Kling is a sailor with with more than 30 years of experience on the oceans of the world. She’s also an English professor at Broward College, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the published author of the Seychelle Sullivan series of mysteries, including SURFACE TENSION (2002), CROSS CURRENT [...] …Read More

The decline in the Atlantic menhaden population over the past few decades is staggering: An 88 percent drop in numbers between 1979 and 2009. The population that once measured close to 200 billion is down to less than 200 billion. The fish that some believe to be the most important in the sea is on [...] …Read More

It's not too early to book your Caribbean winter charter - especially at discounted rates. …Read More

Boats.com, BoatTrader.com, Brunswick are sponsoring a video contest to show what can be done with an aluminum boat. Grand prize is a Triton Storm 16, Mercury motor, and trailer. …Read More

I sort of knew that "shootout" was a poor word choice -- implying the certainty of corpses and so forth -- and I'm officially dropping it from the Panbo title vocabulary; it's too hard to be that certain!  A glaring example was omitting Furuno t... …Read More

Soren Pehrsson had to restart around the end after nosing over the line early in Race Four of the 2010 IKC, but the past champion climbed from the tank to 5th Our topic today is a peculiar phenomenon, rather like a wildflower that grows only at the mid-altitudes of the southeastern slopes of steep hills in [...] …Read More

Do you need to convert LORAN TDs to GPS coordinates? Since LORAN is now dead for real, many anglers will need to make the conversion or lose their old fishing spots. You have the feds to thank for this; after years of on-again, off-again, LORAN is really dead this time… just as e-LORAN looked like [...] …Read More

Here’s another boating related TV show you may want to check out – this comes from the Sail America association: “Adventures in Sailing,” a new Public TV Series in development by The Sailing Channel, is slated for a March 2011 national rollout... …Read More

I may regret that title eventually, though I've just been cruising with four premium MFDs for two weeks, often using them seriously for four or five hours a day.  But that doesn't mean I've learned every nuance of these complex beasts, or that I... …Read More