Jan
27
Filed in Education
Boating is a great summer pastime on Kansas waters. Get out and beat the hot temperatures on a Kansas lake.
Jan
20
Filed in Autos
*Mad Mariner Report- Boating Adventures… like shark watching! *Homesteading on the High Seas *Mary Rose’s Crew & Captain Cook’s Ship Logs *Captain’s Caption *Stacey’s Sealebrity Profile Pick – Dana Barnes TheBoaters.TV airs every M, W & F and is available on iTunes. Please Subscribe!
Dec
30
Filed in Howto
www.bennettmarine.com A comprehensive guide to the Basics of Boating for first-time boat owners as well as experienced skippers with easy to understand instruction on a variety of boating subjects. Subjects covered include: navigation aids, getting underway, docking, fueling, trailering, safety gerar, outboard power & propulsion, winterizing, regular maintenance, basic navigation, marlinspike seamanship and much more. Plus professional marine surveyors give tips on buying a used boat and fiberglass experts and detailers give tips on gel coat repairs and putting a new shine on an old boat.
Dec
13
Filed in Howto
www.bennettmarine.com Learn how to handle your boat in open water and close quarters. Covers boat handling for inboards/outboards and entering or departing your slip or dock under different wind and current conditions. Plus handling tips in bad weather, narrow channels, rough inlets, following seas, head-on seas and running in the trough. Discover how handling your boat in a crowded marina, busy narrow channel or rough inlet can be much easier and safer.
Dec
9
Filed in Travel
This is a video of a wonderful Norfolk Broads Boating Holiday. All of the Broads are very beautiful and there is a photo opportunity every minute. The boat we hired was called Sunlight from www.herbertwoods.co.uk and was excellent in every way. For technical information the video was taken with a Panasonic HDC-SD600.
Nov
25
Filed in Travel
We had a really nice boating day here in the Florida Keys. The footage shows you from the boat ramp to a bunch of the neat things to see on the water. The ramp is near Mile Marker 53, at Vaca Cut, in Marathon and Key Colony Beach. FLKeysToday.com
Nov
12
Filed in Sports
Power Boating, Trailering Your Boat Let Us Show You How IN THIS VIDEO YOU WILL LEARN • Number one reason boats sink at the ramp • Roller trailers vs. Bunk trailers • Four main hitch and trailer components • Tongue weight defined • Motor position when trailering • The proper way to attach safety chains • How to secure you boat on the trailer • The easy way to back up your trailer • How close your vehicle should get to the water • What to disconnect before entering the water • How to launch and retrieve safely • How to stay legal on the road • Useful maintenance tips Your Host: Taylor Lawson Taylor Lawson has been working as a professional captain since 1997 when he obtained his first United States Coast Guard license in San Francisco, California. Currently, he makes a living running and delivering motor yachts around the world and training individuals on how to operate their private boats. A native of Annapolis, MD, he spent his childhood boating with his family from the age of seven. During the summers, he attended sailing school where he gained great insight to the art of close-quarters boat handling. While attending St. Mary’s College of Maryland he raced dinghies on their nationally ranked sailing team and continued in competitive racing circuits after college. While living in Monterey California he was encouraged by an entrepreneur to get a captain’s license and thereafter, run a local sailing charter boat. After California, he moved to the Caribbean where he ran a …
Oct
22
Filed in Entertainment
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Sep
13
Filed in News
Falling water levels on the Suwannee River arebeing blamed for injuries that sent a 9-year-old to the hospital Sunday afternoon.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Shelby Fitzgerald, of Live Oak, was ejected from a boat north of the Dowling Park boat ramp after it hit several rocks.
Shelby received several cuts on her knees and face and received a few stitches at a nearby hospital before being released, FWC spokeswoman Karen Parker said.
Shelby was one of four people on the boat, according to the FWC report. She was seated in the front of the 14-foot-long jon boat and was the only one ejected, Parker said.
The remaining passagenrs on the boat included Shelby’s sister, Lauren Fitzgerald, 4; the girls’ father, Michael Fitzgerald, 45; and Michael Fitzgerald’s stepbrother, Aaron Gross, all of Live Oak.
FWC investigators said the boat apparently hit some rocks that are normally well below the surface of the river, but instead are at or just below the surface this month because of the ongoing drought.
Suwannee River Water Management District hydrologist Megan Wetherington said the Suwannee River is approaching a historic low level in the area where the accident happened.
The river water level was recorded at 21.28 feet by the water district’s gauge at Dowling Park on Sunday, Wetherington said, while the record low ever recorded at Dowling Park was 21.04 feet in June 2011.
“We started to hit record lows this spring in the upper Suwannee River, but it takes longer for us to reach records on the lower portions of the river,” Wetherington said. “We haven’t gotten any type of tropical recharge, which is what we need to bring things up quickly at this time of year.”
According to the National Hurricane Center, there are no tropical systems that are likely to come close to Florida in the near future.
