‘Hunger Games’ Immigration Policy Is Immoral
Earlier in the week the weather router said Thursday or Friday would be equally advantageous for a crossing from Havana to Key West — at worst, 4-footers in the middle of the Gulf Stream. It would be a...
View ArticleA Gateway To Old Florida, Green Cove Springs Boasts Unique Marine...
Today I’m writing about where I live and where I keep my boat. Boaters who come to Florida think they know what the place is all about, but Green Cove Springs on the St. Johns River is still a secret …...
View ArticleCelebrity Car Dealer Answers ‘Yes’ To Guns On Board, Faces Charges in New York
Growing up in Massachusetts, we had Ernie Boch. Marylanders have Jack Antwerpen, a car dealer who floods the airwaves, assuring buyers that his response to a reasonable offer will always be “Yes!”...
View ArticleCuba Policy Change Could Affect Hundreds of Thousands in Florida
A new class of people is about to gain the right to travel to Cuba on their own boats, and this will present the U.S. marine industry with new opportunities while challenging those individual American...
View ArticleHurricane Matthew smashes docks in north Florida by the thousands
“Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott said in the days before Hurricane Matthew struck the north coast of Florida. “Unfortunately, this storm is going to kill people.” People of the...
View ArticleTrump has Four Choices on Cuba
Candidates Donald Trump and Mike Pence promised Cuban-Americans they would roll back President Barack Obama’s initiatives normalizing relations with Cuba. That would undoubtedly include rolling back...
View ArticleArrest Threat Recalls Christmas Past
Tracy Lynn Tedesco learned what a terrible mistake she had made after it’s too late. She is the breadwinner of the family. She pays the bills. She registers her husband’s boat in her name instead of...
View ArticleAngler Burns: 11 Years Ago Bimini Lost a Monument to Hemingway
Once upon a time Bimini was my first choice when clearing into the Bahamas, not because it’s the closest settlement to Florida, but because of the Compleat Angler, once one of the world’s great...
View ArticleWas Granma Built in New Orleans?
I’m on a mission, and I’m asking for your help. I’m researching the boat that Fidel Castro used to “invade” Cuba in 1956. Granma was her name, and her 1,200-mile voyage from Mexico to eastern Cuba...
View ArticleRobert Pirsig Graduated From Bike To Westsail 32
Robert M. Pirsig crossed the bar this week at age 88. He will always be remembered as the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which holds a Guinness record as the most rejected...
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