High Tide Flooding Outlook for December 2024
By US Harbors Monthly High Tide Flooding Outlook, December 2024 While several locations on the East Coast and Gulf Coast have faced likely flooding in the past few months, in December only the West Coast and Hawaii are predicted to likely experience high-tide flooding. For those regions, the likely flooding days… SEE HARBORS THAT MAY FLOOD
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2024 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show Wrap Up
We once again had the pleasure of attending the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, the largest in-water boat show in the world. The 2024 edition lived up to FLIBS’ grand reputation, with sunny skies and a steady breeze that kept things comfortable for the USHarbors crew from Maine. And, as… SEE MORE
Century-Old Halibut Schooners Restored in Port Townsend
By Michael Crowley. The boatyard many fishermen who ply the waters of the Pacific Northwest or Alaska in wooden boats choose for maintenance and repairs is Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-Op in Port Townsend, Wash. At the yard this September, several wooden halibut schooners had been hauled out awaiting work this fall. Among them… SEE MORE
Boat of the Month: Outer Fall
By Paul Molyneaux The first time I ever saw Jimmy Tripp was in late 1982. Jimmy had his boat, the Day Star, loaded with big wooden Anderson traps and was heading offshore. It was snowing and the flakes vanished in the water of Spruce Head harbor. Tripp had his head sticking out… SEE MORE
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2024's "Best Harbor" Contest Winners Announced
You Voted, and We Have a Clear Winner! Grand Winner, Best Harbor in the U.S. for 2024: Block Island, RI Top 10 Results: Block Island, RI (also 2024’s Northeast regional winner; first time on winners list) Destin, FL (also 2024’s Gulf Coast regional winner; first time on winners list) Padanaram,… Learn More
Why Choose the Hard Life of Commercial Fishing?
By Carli Stewart. Why would anyone who has a choice want to fish for a living, given the cold, wet, uncertainty, danger, muck, dependence on weather for make or break, and general ass-busting hardship? For a skipper of any sized boat, add the government regulations, ruinous cost of fuel and… SEE MORE
Boat Test: 2024 EdgeWater 208CC Watchman
By Randy Vance. The 208CC Watchman balances bold design with many comforts in a package that’s ready for hardcore fishing and family boating. Overview The 208CC was one of EdgeWater’s first and most successful center-consoles. Still popular and one of the strongest fishing boats in its class, EdgeWater’s designers decided… SEE MORE
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Leading the Way to Hybrid Diesel Electric Propulsion
By Paul Molyneaux. In 2021, the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA) initially received funding from the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnerships Project for modeling and analysis of alternative propulsion systems. Based on that work, the original plan—developed in conjunction with the National Research Energy Laboratory—was to put a Transfluid clutch, electric… SEE MORE
Rescue of Six Fishermen Shows Importance of Personal Locator Beacons
By Carli Stewart. Six fishermen were rescued, and their disabled vessel was towed to Satawal Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) after a coordinated search by international operations. The United States Coast Guard, one of the crews involved in the rescue efforts, has written statements about the importance… SEE MORE
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