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Irecently learned about the dramatic rescue of a man who had suffered a heart attack in the cabin of his Sea Ray. Thanks to the quick and intelligent actions of a few boat owners in the same harbor that day, the gentleman who had a brush with death is now able to thank the people who saved his life. Dennis Dillon and his wife, Tricia, were on the hook in New York’s Port Jefferson Harbor when he went into cardiac arrest. Tricia began CPR and yelled for help. Josh Stein of Connecticut was on a nearby mooring aboard his Beneteau Swift Trawler when he heard Tricia’s cries. Stein and his fiancé, Dr. Elizabeth Nadal, had traveled to the area to attend an event for members of the Saugatuck Harbor Yacht…
Try to imagine the conditions present at every single point in the world’s oceans, at every single second. On the surface. Just beneath the surface. Far beneath the surface. With a slowmoving current. With a fast-moving current. With an easterly current. With a northerly current. With a cool temperature. With a cooler temperature. With high salinity. With higher salinity. For every single point in the oceans, at every single second. “It’s a huge, huge data set,” says Thomas Peacock, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “The ocean is so complex, you could release two floats off the side of a boat in the same location, and it’s entirely possible that they’ll end up going in different directions.” This level of complexity, of course, is…
As I cleared the inlet and steered the Second Chance, a 36-foot Delta SFX, to the northeast on a flat sea under light gray skies, I was focused on the day’s mission: We would scour the sandy hills a few miles offshore of New Jersey’s Manasquan Inlet for fluke. When I shut off the Caterpillars to make our first drift I was hoping for a little wind so we could cover some ground. The morning air was breathless though, and without any momentum, our squid strip and killie combos would be easy prey for sea robins and skates before the fluke could get the chance to join in. No flatties showed up on the first couple of passes, so I moved the boat to deeper water. As the crew in…
1. GENERAL NAVIGATION: A weather forecast states that the wind will commence backing. In the Northern Hemisphere, this will indicate that it will: A. Shift in a clockwise manner B. Shift in a counterclockwise manner C. Continue blowing from the same direction D. Decrease in velocity 2. GENERAL NAVIGATION: What weather accompanies the passage of a cold front in the Northern Hemisphere? A. Wind shift from northeast clockwise to southeast B. Steady dropping of barometric pressure C. Steady precipitation, gradually increasing in intensity D. A line of cumulonimbus clouds 3. GENERAL NAVIGATION: A line of clouds, sharp changes in wind direction, and squalls are most frequently associated with a(n): A. Occluded front B. Warm front C. Cold front D. Warm sector 4. GENERAL NAVIGATION: An urgent marine storm warning message…
My buddy Lee and I were drifting over a shipwreck 30 miles off Virginia Beach, Virginia. From the back of my center console, we dropped jigs to the bottom and pulled up sea bass and flounder. Suddenly, the sylvan ocean surface was disrupted by a 10-pound mahimahi jumping toward the clear blue sky. Lee and I stood dumbfounded, processing the image of that gold and green fish near a mid-shore wreck. “Was that a dolphin?” I asked Lee. He broke his silence, “Yeah, a nice one.” In unison, we quickly cranked in our jigs and stowed the rods. I put the boat in gear and made a wide circle heading back toward the wreck. Lee grabbed the trolling rods and snapped a pre-rigged ballyhoo on each. By the time the…
At first glance the Serenity 64 looks like a lot of other power cats. There is a ton of space. The aft cockpit is enormous. You can take in the sun on the bow, stern and aft on the flybridge. It has a 320-square-foot salon, a large galley and four custom staterooms, plus a crew cabin. It also has shower walls covered in slate so thin it curves around the corners, but it’s the silent solarelectric propulsion system that makes this ocean-going powerboat a rare catamaran. Boyd Taylor and his wife, Elizabeth Neville, built the first Serenity 64 in 2018. Constructed in Turkey’s free-trade zone, the first hull made its world debut at Cannes, France. But earlier this year they brought the second hull to the Miami Boat Show for…
