ShareClose Bookmark and Share This Page Save to Browser Favorites / BookmarksAskbackflipblinklistBlogBookmarkBloglinesBlogMarksBlogsvineBuddyMarksBUMPzee!CiteULikeco.mmentsConnoteadel.icio.usDiggdiigoDotNetKicksDropJackdzoneFacebookFarkFavesFeed Me LinksFriendsitefolkd.comFurlGoogleHuggJamespotJeqqKaboodlekirtsylinkaGoGoLinkedInLinksMarkerMa.gnoliaMister WongMixxMySpaceMyWebNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditRojoSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSphereSphinnSpurlSquidooStumbleUponTechnoratiThisNextTwitterWebrideWindows LiveWorlds MoviesYahoo!Email This to a FriendCopy HTML:  If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »Daniel Schorr, NPR’s Weekend Edition news interpreter, dropped the best line of the week as a throw-away this morning. After reporting that [...]

Either I’m paying closer attention than usual or there are more idiots on the water these days. Button 16 has been crackling with lunacy. Take last weekend’s adventurer who 1. Lost power 2. Didn’t know the name of the boat 3. Couldn’t get the anchor rigged and deployed 4. And (this is the best) didn’t [...]

… you’re aground. We’re not sure what transpired, but we do know that the area NW of the jetties at Channel Islands Harbor has been shoaling up over the last month or so. We found out on a fairly exciting kayak ride when we found ourselves in breakers where a few weeks before we’d felt [...]

I’ve been sailing a lot. A LOT, so haven’t been posting much here. And on every charter, we go through the one-hand-for-the-boat briefing. Here are some folks who really understood – my pals from Baxter’s HR Department.

For more than a century, flags and lights were used to warn mariners of dangerous conditions. In 1989 the service was dropped … and in June this year, they started raising the flags again. Here’s a summary of what the flags and the warnings mean – Small Craft Advisory Interestingly, this warning means different things [...]