Safely Navigating Tides and Tidal Currents
October 17, 2025
Knowing the difference between tides and tidal currents can pay off when making your way through an inlet or docking.
Knowing the difference between tides and tidal currents can pay off when making your way through an inlet or docking.
These old-fashioned skills can help you get your boat on and off the dock smoothly.
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Knowing the difference between tides and tidal currents can pay off when making your way through an inlet or docking.
These old-fashioned skills can help you get your boat on and off the dock smoothly.
Essential Guide to Ditch Bag Boating Safety
Signs of Drowning: What to Know Before It’s Too Late
Inlets can be tricky. Here’s some expert advice to help you avoid a harrowing tale.
Social media channels filming at Haulover Inlet seem to be inspiring horrific boat handling.
Cruise for long enough and you’ll touch bottom. What’s the plan for when you do?
Hot Take: Running the blower would not have helped a recent boat explosion in Ft. Lauderdale.
For Dan and his colleagues, at-sea emergencies have been hitting a little too close to home.
Extreme boat docking takes center stage as Chesapeake Cowboys captains compete in high-speed precision docking. Discover the thrill of this unique sport!
Like many of you we’ve watched more videos from Haulover Inlet than we want our boss to know about. Videos of stuffed bows, near disasters and plain bad boating can be strangely addicting, especially if you get sucked into the comment section. We had a conversation with a member of the U.S. Coast Guard’s 7th District to breakdown some of the biggest fails on social media.
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Just when you thought Volvo Penta’s joystick couldn’t get any better, the company launches Joystick Driving, which allows you to shift, control the throttle and steer at speed all from your helm seat. Does this spell the end of the steering wheel and throttles as we know it?
A Potentially Life-Saving Excerpt from “The Ocean. The Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge.”
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