Tag: boating

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Provides $20M in Grants to Marinas

Boating

3/29/2023 - By saymedia-content.com. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the agency’s Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) program will provide more than $20 million in grant funding for 19 states to construct, renovate and maintain marinas and other boating facilities for outdoor recreation. Under the BIG program, more than $2.8 million will… SEE MORE

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Going Electric

3/18/2023 - By soundingsonline.com As more builders introduce new models with electric propulsion, DIY types are converting their old boats with their own hands. When Dave and Danielle Baker and their two young children pull up to a marina and begin maneuvering into a slip, they often get wondering stares from people… SEE MORE

Shipwreck on the Norwegian Coast By wikipedia.org

Archaeologists Believe a Piece of Flotsam That Washed Up on a New York Beach Could be Part of an 1821 Shipwreck

3/6/2023 - By Min Chen The SS Savannah was the first steam and sail hybrid vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Last October, a weathered hunk of flotsam washed up on a New York shoreline following Hurricane Ian. No plain marine debris, though, the wreckage, experts believe, could well have been part… SEE MORE

Shipwreck of the SS American Star on the shore of Fuerteventura via WikiCommons

The Hunt for an Elusive Florida Shipwreck That Killed 41 Enslaved People

3/5/2023 - By Karuna Eberl Searching for the slave ship Guerrero, the nonprofit Diving With a Purpose has also trained scores of young Black men and women to find and tell stories once lost to the waves. CARYSFORT REEF WAS DARK UNDER the new moon. Coral tentacles undulated with the changing tide,… SEE MORE

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How to Get Your Boat Ready for Spring

3/4/2023 - By scoutboats.com Make Spring Easier with Proper Winterizing If May rolls around, it’s a little late for this step, but you can always remember it for next year. To get your boat ready for spring, it helps to winterize the boat properly. By thoroughly preparing your boat for winter storage, it… SEE MORE

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Recreational boating degrades vegetation important for fish recruitment

2/25/2023 - By springer.com Recreational boating increases globally and associated moorings are often placed in vegetated habitats important for fish recruitment. Meanwhile, assessments of the effects of boating on vegetation, and potential effects on associated fish assemblages are rare. Here, we analysed (i) the effect of small-boat marinas on vegetation structure, and… SEE MORE

Cindy Shebley, CC BY 2.0 , Everett_WA._-_USA_02_19_2020_Boat_mooring_with_Anthony's_Homeport_Resturant_on_Port_Gardner_bay._(49565791383) via Wikimedia Commons

Environmental impacts of increasing leisure boating activity in Mediterranean coastal waters

2/23/2023 - By www.sciencedirect.com [caption id="attachment_44806" align="alignnone" width="512"] 1950s_boat_Gloucester_Massachusetts_USA_5336085003 via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Leisure boating is an important economic activity which is increasing in popularity worldwide, and the Mediterranean Sea is one of the most popular nautical tourism destinations in the world. While the overall ecological impacts of recreational boating on freshwater ecosystems… SEE MORE

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Maine builder feeds the ‘tuna fever’

2/22/2023 - By www.nationalfisherman.com [caption id="attachment_44796" align="alignnone" width="512"] 512px-Big_Dipper_(boat)_01 via Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Wesmac Custom Boats in Surry, Maine, has been building a lot of boats over the past year, and many of them are tuna boats. “The guys, they all got tuna fever,” says Wesmac’s owner, Steve Wessel. One of the tuna… SEE MORE

Next-Level Power Solutions: Exploring the Latest Advances in Battery Technology

2/11/2023 - By sailmagazine.com When I started the lithium project on our 65-foot Farr, Falken, Mia, and I were hell-bent on induction cooking. Cool factor, baby, plus it would rid us of the hassle of refilling propane tanks in exotic ports (and make galley cleanup easier with a flat, glass cooking surface). Bruce… SEE MORE

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Best Boating Lakes

2/4/2023 - By takemefishing.org The best places for boating generally have a few important things in common. First, the best boating lakes offer you multiple ramps or access points. In other words, launching and docking your boat is super easy because you aren't limited to a single ramp or marina. Second, there… SEE MORE