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New Lightweight Life-Jackets
There’s no denying that wearing a life jacket while aboard your boat might help prevent you from drowning if, for some reason, you end up in the water. The U.S. Coast Guard and the National Association...
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Tips for Safe Passage
Since I left full-time sailing for a living many years ago, what I miss most is passage-making — the process of crossing vast expanses of open ocean. The excitement of the challenge and satisfaction of...
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Extreme Anchoring
With the boat’s engines running, Capt. Travis Palladeno has dock lines untied by 4 a.m. to make the 130-mile run into the Gulf of Mexico. What’s the payoff for that run? “You don’t have to throw any...
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Adjust Your Boat's Attitude
For two years I ran my 21-foot center-console fishing boat without trim tabs. Boy, was that a mistake, as I discovered after a friend recommended tabs while slogging through a particularly rough...
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Prep Your Tow Vehicle
The magic of a trailer boat is its mobility. If tarpon are erupting on the other side of the state, you can tow across to reach them. If striped bass are thick 150 miles down the coast, you can...
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Kayak Power
It wasn’t long ago that powering a kayak meant one thing — using a traditional paddle. Those days are long gone.No, the double-sided handheld paddle is not a thing of the past. Hardly. Truth is, most...
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Know the Lights
Thanks to U.S. Coast Guard light-display standards for night navigation, you can identify any type of vessel and its activity, as well as determine where to safely enter and exit a harbor.To make this...
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Top Tips for Night Boating
At some point in your saltwater-angling career, you’ll end up on the dark side — afloat on a boat at night. That adventure could take the form of a predawn offshore run, casting to snook under evening...
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Boat Brakes
Do you ever wish you could slow your drift or hold the bow into the sea without standing at the helm and using engines? You can. Three pros describe how sea anchors add comfort to your drift, and enjoy...
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Better Boating Tips for Better Buying
It just may be true that there's never been a better time to own a boat. While that statement may seem to fly in the face of some trying economic times these days, the very opportunity to experience...
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Bilge Checks: Essential to Boating Safety
In some circumstances, such as encouraging romance or growing a business, falling into a routine can scuttle your chances of success. When boating, however, adhering to a routine of regular bilge...
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Anchored for the Evening: Post a Lookout to Stay Safe
Standing watch while your boat lies on anchor might sound easy, but try staying awake and alert to potential dangers all night on the hook. Unless there are fish biting under the boat in the dark,...
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Storage Solutions
First introduced more than a half-century ago, the center-console design represents one of the greatest advancements in saltwater-fishing boats. Today’s center-consoles shine when it comes to angler...
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Mack Machines
(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)Want to skipper your way to more and bigger king mackerel? Success starts with choosing the right boat and arming it to the teeth,...
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Proving Pods Catch Fish
(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)When it comes to offshore trolling, twin-diesel inboards have long reigned supreme, proven to lay down clean trolling alleys and raise...
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Stretch Your Fishing Fuel Budget
When most boating anglers consider fuel economy, they think in terms of miles per gallon (mpg). Yet in this age of $4 or even $5 per gallon fuel, perhaps it’s better to extend that thinking to miles...
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10 Ways to Keep the Deck Safer Aboard Your Fishing Boat
You've heard Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. When it comes to fishing lines and nets on boats, I have an amendment: Anything that can snag, will snag. A second amendment...
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Six Tips for Fishing Safely Near Breakers
The surging turbulence where ocean waves careen into the shallows creates rich hunting areas for game fish such as calico bass, redfish, roosterfish, striped bass and tarpon. Despite the dangers,...
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