On the Water: News & Events

Passing through Miami or Fort Lauderdale and need fuel? How about having it delivered to you at anchor by Peterson Fuel Delivery. They’ve been doing it for almost ten years but I didn’t know about it until Jeff and Karen Siegel took advantage of the service and wrote it up in their cruise blog, TakingPaws. According [...] …Read More

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

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

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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

The local paper brought sad news today from the water: Three dead on a houseboat, most likely of carbon monoxide poisoning. The source, a portable gas generator onboard. Having a portable unit in a closed-cabin boat is a bad idea. As a police spokesman said, “You have to take note; these generators give off toxic fumes. [...] …Read More

I'd have sunk it the other night. Now I not only need a new pump, but new sailing boots, too. …Read More

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