Well, that didn’t take long. NOAA has meaningfully pushed up its forecast of named storms by at le...
Author: Vin Pica
This expression goes back to Biblical days – when there were fewer people and even fewer boats. If...
We've written often about hurricanes, great and small. Of note, forecasters predict a likelih...
Let’s finish up on the Lights and Shapes section of the Rules and be armed with the knowledge of w...
A couple of weeks ago, I laid out the ground work for these next set of Rules, which are considerabl...
With Hurricane Cristobal bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month, it is a grim reminde...
As we’ve delved deeper into the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLORE...
As we continue our numerical march through the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions a...
On April 18, the skipper of a sailboat blithely sailed in front of 550-foot tanker in a narrow chann...
Continuing our focus on lights and shapes in this section of The International Regulations for Preve...
You may remember that we’ve written about boat-handling in foggy conditions. Why is that? Well, if...
While it would seem intuitive that vessels engaged in certain activities or sizes would have a certa...
Rule 17, seemingly a simple rule, has some subtle nuances that, in failing to understand them, may i...
You may have read surveyor Thomas Gray’s well-known mnemonic verse, written into a pamphlet entitl...
In 1875, Captain George Eldridge put the rules, as they were then defined, to poetry, among other le...
While many of our readers will head out to the canyons for the great pelagic fish — sharks of many...
Who hasn’t been out on our seaways and experienced another boat overtaking you at such a speed tha...
When I take young sailors out on the high seas, I usually challenge the group with the following: ...
It has been over 14 years since we approached the “COLREGs” in a systematic way, from stem to st...
As an avid student of the sea, I’m always amazed when I read that even some of the around-the-worl...