On the Water: News & Events

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

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

Mobile Mariner LLC has announced the official launch of the Mobile Mariner™ for the Blackberry® smartphone, which will provide NOAA marine weather forecasts, tide information and life weather conditions for the coastal United States, including the Great Lakes. More upcoming releases will expand the application to other smartphone platforms and cover more international areas. Mobile Mariner [...] …Read More

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Will the Clipper race ever come back to California? Meaning the Clipper Round the World, whose organizers went to great lengths to bring their event to a place that is usually ignored by long-distance racers because it’s just way, way, way off the route to anywhere. Whose fleet is now about halfway across the Pacific on [...] …Read More

According to today's news feed, gas prices have hit their highest point since October 2008, averaging $2.799/gallon nationwide. Many experts predict we'll be paying over $3 come summer. Seems like now might be a good time to once again look at the both the myths and realities of PWC fuel consumption. …Read More

KVH Industries said today that it will offer rebates up to $200 through the end of April on its TracVision M1 and M3 satellite TV systems.  The M1 and M3 systems are typically used on smaller boats, although the M3DX unit, with its HDTV capability could easily serve as the workhorse on almost any size [...] …Read More