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NOAA Predicts More High Tide Flooding
More and more often, coastal communities are seeing severe flooding—the kind that used to only come with big storms—on sunny days. Due to rising sea levels, occurrences as simple as a full moon or a high sea state can result in flooding. In fact, high tide flooding is now ...read more
Chart Plotting in the Digital World
When upgrading your boat’s electronics, you need to consider which electronic charts are available and supported by the various chartplotter manufacturers. The major multifunction displays from Garmin, Raymarine, Lowrance, Simrad, B&G and Furuno now support digital charts from ...read more
Whales and Sails
Although there’s nothing quite like spotting a whale at sea to make a sailor’s day, the relationship between whales and sailors has long been a checkered one, to say the least. For centuries, of course, it was sailors who were the bad guys, as whalers slaughtered countless ...read more
Knowing the Land and Sea Breezes
When sailing close to the coast it often seems that NOAA’s wind forecasts are maddeningly inaccurate. How could NOAA get it so wrong? The answer, of course, is that they didn’t. NOAA’s forecasts refer to prevailing winds, but as sailors we need to account for how the land ...read more