High Tide Flooding Outlook for April 2025

By US Harbors Monthly High Tide Flooding Outlook – April 2025 Northern New England finds itself in the hot seat from a flooding perspective in April, with flooding likely in Boston, Portland, and Bar Harbor, Maine. These higher water levels are likely on and around the full moon, on April 12,… SEE HARBORS THAT MAY FLOOD

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Ignoring a Warning Sign Ruins a Day of Boating

4/7/2025

By boatingmag.com. Ignoring a warning sign leads to a calamitous day on the bay while boating. Find out what lessons this boater learned. It was a beautiful August afternoon in Maryland, and my fiancée, her granddaughter, and I decided to take my 28-foot cabin cruiser down the South River and… SEE MORE

Aerial view of a powerboat running in shallow water.

Safely Navigating Unfamiliar Waters

3/6/2025

By Pete McDonald. Boating in new waters can be a rewarding experience. Here are three tips to help you stay safe in unfamiliar places. Early on in my boat-testing career, I learned the hard way about what can happen when boating in unfamiliar waters. The boat company set up our… SEE MORE

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Solving Boating Mysteries

3/4/2025

By Charles Plueddeman. Mysteries solved? Local boaters do their best to get to the bottom of a couple of puzzling boating occurrences. Our neighborhood made the boating news twice in 2024, stories that have fueled the offseason hot-stove league here at the Lake View Inn, where everyone is welcome to… SEE MORE

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Navigating Safely Around a Boat Being Towed

2/20/2025

By Jim Hendricks. A vessel under tow presents a unique boating safety situation. Learn what you should, and should not, do if you encounter it. A floating traffic jam quickly developed as we joined a line of other boats, not unlike a solemn funeral procession, through a narrow channel behind… SEE MORE

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Kayak Fishing the Everglades at Flamingo

2/2/2025

By Nick Carter Exploring the backcountry and the flats of Florida Bay in motorized fishing kayaks. The Florida Everglades are a million and a half acres of wetland famously called a river of grass. From the water at Flamingo, it’s more of a mangrove jungle. Here at the southernmost outpost of Everglades… SEE MORE

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How to Navigate Boat Buying Online

1/16/2025

By Pete McDonald. Use these tips to leverage the wealth of digital information and get the best deal when buying your next boat. These days, you can order just about anything—from tacos to socks to barbecue grills—with the click of a button and have it delivered to your doorstep. It… SEE MORE

North Atlantic Right Whale off the coast of Massachusetts

NOAA Withdraws Proposed Speed Restrictions on Boats 35-65ft.

1/16/2025

The proposed rule, intended to protect North Atlantic Right Whales, would have extended current restrictions to recreational boats ranging from 35 to 65 feet to a speed of 10 knots along much of the Eastern Seaboard for up to seven months of the year. In a significant development for the… SEE MORE

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