How to launch a boat from a trailer

Keen to take the stress out of slipway work? Boating instructor Jon Mendez shares his essential guide on how to launch a boat from a trailer… For many of us, our introduction to boating would have been a small trailer-launched boat that we towed to the water whenever we fancied getting afloat. If it was […]

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Boating – A big industry with a big impact

By Bill Yeargin Boating is important not only to those of us who enjoy being on the water but also to those who depend on it for their livelihood. Boating has a huge economic impact, a 230-billion-dollar annual impact. The boating industry includes 36,000 businesses – most of them small and family-operated – providing 813,000 […]

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Building Oyster Reefs in Florida’s Panhandle

Anglers such as Sam Ravenal have already noticed redfish near the Pensacola East Bay oyster habitat restoration sites Sam Ravenal Disaster struck the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, with enormous consequences. As a result of errors caused by shortcuts, miscalculations and questionable procedures, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, located 41 miles off the […]

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New Boat: Two Oceans 555

As I walked the docks of the Miami boat show, a text came in from my editor asking me to check out the new Two Oceans 555. After what already felt like a day filled with catamaran inspections, it might as well have been called Multihull Monday (it was actually a Thursday, but it sure […]

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MTI At 25—Spooled Up Twice

Arguably the coolest matched-theme pair of MTIs ever created, Spooled Up, a 52-foot catamaran, and Spooled Up Support, an MTI-V 42 center console, were commissioned by Craig and Kim Hargreaves of Washington. Their unforgettable painted graphics were created by the ferociously talented Mark Morris of Visual Imagination in Peculiar, Mo. It is some of his […]

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Sunnier Skies This Past Week. But Will it Last?

May 24, 2023Weekly Market OutlookBy Donn Goodman and Keith Schneider Last week we shared with you a number of dark clouds casting a shadow on the markets. We emphasized that it was a point where the markets (both stock and bond) either broke down or broke out.  We got to witness both. The stock market […]

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Copper River Commercial Drift Gillnet Harvest Climbs

Copper River Delta. Photo: Panoramio via Wikimedia Commons. Breakup is happening slowly in Alaska’s famed Copper River commercial salmon fishery, where more than 300 drift gillnetters have delivered an estimated 24,444 fish from the first two 12-hour openers, and a third 12-hour opener was underway on Monday, May 22.  The harvest from those first two […]

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Top Features of Fishing-Specific Clothing

Sun protection is just one consideration. Courtesy Columbia Special delivery: Sign up for the free Salt Water Sportsman email newsletter. Subscribe to Salt Water Sportsman magazine for $19 for 1 year and receive 4 bonus digital issues. In the beginning, fishing shirts were stodgy, stuffy affairs. Sports took to the water in clothes that were more ­befitting a Sunday […]

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US Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin Helicopters

The MH-65 is equipped for making challenging rescues. Courtesy US Coast Guard Special delivery: Sign up for the free Boating email newsletter. Subscribe to Boating magazine for $14 for 1 year and receive 4 bonus digital issues. One of the US Coast Guard’s most recognizable aircraft must be the Eurocopter MH-65 SRR Dolphin. A gloss-orange streak racing toward danger, […]

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