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Boating
Articles |
 Why
Slow Down? Some Tips for Vacation Road Warriors
Ever
since the price of gas started to really climb – perhaps in 2004
or 2005 – I have concentrated ever harder on finding ways to make that
gallon of gas go just a bit further… more correctly, the real goal is to
make your car go farther on a gallon of gas. I explored
that aspect in a fairly recent article titled
“In a Hurry to Get There?: Ten
Tips to Help Your Fuel Economy”.
(06/08) |
 Lightning
on the Lake
...at any given moment, there are
about 1800 thunderstorms of various intensities occurring around the
earth – about 16 million per year! Of course thunderstorms are, in
and of themselves, a significant natural hazard, with the capability
of producing things like damaging hail, tornadoes, high winds,
significant rainfall and lightning… (08/06) |
 In
a Hurry to Get There? 10 Tips to Help Your Fuel Economy
I often tell myself that I am not as
old as a recent birthday would have me be. However, there are
many things that remind me - not always in a totally unpleasant way
- that time is really starting to fly past. And speaking of
unpleasant, consider the current price of gasoline, now fast
approaching $4.00 per gallon.
(6/07) |
 GPS and Finding Your Way Home
Our ancestors built giant landmarks, laboriously drafted
“detailed” maps and learned how to read the sun and stars in order to find
their way. However, in order to really know where one is, one absolutely
must know two very important pieces of information in order to know
position (1/06) |
 Towing,
Trailering and Tires
I just came back from
my annual spring fishing trip to Minnesota and I gotta say that every year
I get a little bit more nervous as I trailer my boat 600 miles in each
direction. The reason is simple: people drive way too fast nowadays…
without pulling some sort of trailer behind them. (8/05) |
 Boat Batteries
Most of us take our boat batteries for granted, in
much the same manner as we do our car batteries. I used to do
that. In fact, I had a car that sat in the warmth of the garage all
winter. I thought that an occasional blast from a charger would be
enough to do the trick. (6/05) |
 Insuring
Your Boat
When I bought my first boat, a friend asked me
if I knew that a boat was defined as a hole in the water, into which
I would be throwing a lot of money. I chuckled...
Read more (6/03) |
 Recommended
Equipment
There are certain
things that every boat should have onboard before you even consider
connecting the trailer to you car. Sure, most of them are required by law...
(08/02) |
 A Few Knots to Know Before You
Go...
Knot tying
is part of the practice of what is known as marlinspike seamanship
– the general knowledge of knots and the care of rope... (07/02) |
 The
Importance of Navigational Aids
In 1998, more than 800 lives were lost as a result of recreational
boating accidents in the U.S. and its territories... (06/02) |
 Getting Ready for Winter
Take some time now to “winterize” your boat so that you can sit
beside a winter’s fire and enjoy memories and pictures of last
summer’s vacation and rest assured that your boat will be ready next
spring when you are. (10/02) |
 Getting
Ready for Spring
Most of us are antsy to get our boats back in the water.
Some of you have even taken your boats to the southern parts of
Illinois, or even as far south as Kentucky or Tennessee. But the
important question is: is your boat really ready to be “on the
water”? I’m guessing that it’s not. And the reason is that most of
us are so ready to be back on the water... |
