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If you're on the salt and you plan to spend more than about six hours on land (about 1/4 of a semi-diurnal tide), and you don't have access to a dock, then you're going to need some way to get back and forth to your anchored boat (unless you want to tend it at the water line 24/7. And that's...

Will you please point me to the NOAA citations which indicate that seal populations are 100X above their carrying capacity in the Sound. It doesn't seem possible for any population to be that far above its carrying capacity for that long. By definition, a population's carrying capacity (I'm...

Same here. I'd like to get 5 mpg at 17 mph, but I've never had that happen. I'd also add that I used to obsess about gas milage but I've found that it's a minor part of my annual boating expense. This probably wouldn't be true if I owned a Whaler with twin 225's instead, but I find it true...

This is not quite right. Generally, and by mathematical definition, density independent growth (i.e. population growth) is exponential. Medical and scientific advancements serve only to decrease the doubling time of a population, but growth is exponential regardless. Science and medicine don't...

Yeah! As they say, "My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants."

Bingo. There's no place to put them all when they are caught. Around here, the same folks who complain the most about the lenient system are the exact same ones who keep voting down a tax increase for a bigger prison. It's not just a problem for "leftist" west coast cities. The opiod crisis...

Typically, the round, expensive recreational traps have only two doors while the cheap square ones have four. So easier and faster for the crabs to find their way into the cheap traps. Crabbing with rings can be even more productive (no gates!) if you're willing to pull them every twenty...

I know that was your boat before it was your son's. If they ever catch those SOB's I know a guy who knows a guy.

I think you mean that that they DON'T suck.

Does the beer belly help or does that just come with the territory?

The Scotty Trap-ease roller is cheap ($39), easy to install, tough, and will keep the rope from rubbing your boat. You can also buy an extender for it and it will keep your traps from banging the side of your boat.

If you just want to cruise around on a small lake at idle speed, then a little 4 or 5 hp kicker motor will do that. Try operating like that for a few weeks and see if that's how you really want to do all of your boating (you're going to want a kicker anyway). I think James TXSD is spot on with...

Also, Henry Ford did not invent the automobile. Now, back to the rescue...incredible! When it was announced that they would have to dive all those boys out of that cave, I couldn't imagine that it would turn out so well. I've seen student divers panic in the most benign conditions (i.e., a...

After the requisite hating period required of all curmudgeons like myself, I have grown to like almost every traffic circle installed in my vicinity (many now). I can think of only one in my accustomed driving vicinity (out many, many installed) that have made matters worse rather than better...

Hello All, I have an older 22' C-dory classic. It has no windlass or anchor locker. My current anchor and rode system is an overkill. A lot of chain and a bigger anchor than I need (I transferred it from a larger boat I had). It does, however, give me great amount of comfort when I set...

It's been years since I've backpacked there, but I do remember that the fishing in the inland lakes (Lake Halloran especially) was so good and easy that it didn't really matter what I fished with. I have a light, collapsable fishing rod that I take backpacking and for Isle Royale, to fish the...

If you're just thinking about day trips then a 19 or 22 footer would work. If you're contemplating overnight trips on the boat then I don't think either of those two options would be very workable for four adult sized individuals. We are a family of four and my kids are in grade school. When...

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I'm confused. What is the problem?

What...no sextant? :D