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America's Great Loop: "The Last Great Adventure."

9/16/2019 by US Harbors

• Boating
• Coastal News
• Travel

The Great Loop has been called “the last great adventure in North America”, and it’s gaining in popularity as hundreds of boats follow the 6,000-mile continuous waterway route every year. The Great Loop takes boaters up the Atlantic seaboard, through historic canals, across the Great Lakes, down the inland rivers… SEE MORE

Casting About the Connecticut River

5/8/2019 by US Harbors

• Fishing

By Captain Tom Migdalski. The Native Algonquins called it “Quinnehtukqut,” or “Long Tidal River,” and were the first to appreciate the estuary’s incredible diversity of life. Flowing 410 miles from its origin at the Canadian border, the Connecticut River dumps 10 billion gallons of fresh water into Long Island Sound… SEE MORE

• Bluefish
• Saltwater

Submarine Force Museum: Visiting the USS NAUTILUS

5/31/2015 by Tyler Fields

• Boating
• Culture
• Travel

In 1951, Congress authorized the building of the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Given the name NAUTILUS, the revolutionary propulsion system was only the first of the ship's many records. Over her 26 years of service, she sailed over half a million nautical miles, including the first ship to cross the… SEE MORE

That's a Wrap: Views of the 2014 WoodenBoat Show

6/30/2014 by Tyler Fields

• Boating
• Culture
• Nature
• Travel

The annual WoodenBoat Show in Mystic is a gathering of wooden boats — and of the wooden boat faithful. Every summer, the grounds of the Mystic Seaport Museum are filled with every type of craft, from strip-planked kayaks to schooners, both on-land and in the water. The waterfront is lined… SEE MORE