Recently, a friend of mine fell overboard while boarding a boat at the dock. Sound crazy? Not really...
Author: Vin Pica
We had the coldest, wettest fall in recent memory. Boaters, albeit fewer, are still out there (like ...
There’s an old chestnut that the two happiest days of a boater’s life is buying a boat and selli...
Hello! I am Vincent Pica. If you’ve read this column, you may know I’ve been at this for nearly ...
When we were kids, it was all about readin’, ritin’ and ‘rithmatic. On the sea, especially in ...
There is a little-known fact that you can drown right in the marina, in the most shocking way. It is...
Obviously, the most top-of-mind danger that all mariners face is drowning. We live, work and play in...
We’ve all heard the mantra “speed kills,” but so does cold water. New York was the first state...
When I teach seamanship courses, I stress to the private boat captains that they have to imagine tha...
Now that the season is winding down, we must start thinking about getting the boat home and up on th...
Usually, as soon as I write about decommissioning the boat for the winter, an Indian summer arrives....
As the temperatures continue to drop, we need to focus now on skippering in heavy weather — becaus...
So, after a couple of seasons with my new four-stroke 3.5-horsepower engine, (had to drop down to 3....
Do you ever wonder what the world’s #1 Coast Guard tells its members to do when hurricanes approac...
We’ve written a few times about what you should do to prepare for hurricanes, “hurry-canes” (a...
With Hurricane Dorian having decimated the Bahamas and pummeling the Carolinas as I write this, it i...
Over the years, we’ve written quite a bit about global positioning systems technology. Interesting...
We’ve written about global positioning systems, the wonder of the 21st (really 20th!) Century, man...
Waves can be the most beautiful and the most fearsome aspect of the sea. Whether you float above the...
Pollsters tell us that the most popular topic of conversation is the weather — and why not!? It ce...