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NOAA Predicts Below-Normal 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Forecasters with NOAA’s National Weather Service are predicting a below-normal hurricane season for the Atlantic basin this year. NOAA’s outlook for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs June 1 to November 30, predicts a 35 percent...
Catalina Yachts Auction Includes Nine Boats, Sail and Power
The True North 39 hull and deck could fetch $30,000, for what finished would be worth $1 million, according to Ken Fickett, builder of Great Harbour trawlers.
The Catalina 22 has been in continuous production for decades with as many as 18...
The Case of the Castaway Conflagration
This is the unnamed “stranded sailor” whose flares are believed to have started the fire on Santa Rosa island off California. He scrapped out the SOS signal in the charred grass behidn him. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Ve...
Running AMOC: Climate Forecast for the North Atlantic
Dawn breaks on broken boats, six months after double-yolked hurricanes Irma and Maria. (Photo by Genevieve Jacobs, Nanny Cay, Tortola BVI, March 2018.)
The author is a longtime professor of Psychology and Communications. She landed in Verm...
West Marine Slinks Into Bankruptcy
West Marine is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, where this 50,000-square-foot flagship store is also located.
Americas biggest marine supply store, West Marine filed for bankuptcy protection yesterday in Delaware as the result of run-of-t...
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Newspaper editor. Cruiser: Nova Scotia to Caribbean. Writer for boating magazines, specializing in Florida, Bahamas and Greater Antilles. Captain of excursion catamarans in the Dominican Republic. Delivery skipper. U.S. Coast Guard master's license.
I joined the Royal Navy (EW) at 16, travelling the world on three frigates & an aircraft carrier. After 6 years, I served in London’s 999 services and the RNLI. Later, I built two successful insurance brokering businesses. Now, I write about boats!
Management consultant, writer, world-cruising sailor, instrument rated commercial pilot. Currently working as a digital nomad and sailing the South Pacific aboard our Catamaran, Roam.
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