Off the Coast of Maine, the Time Is Right for Racing in Bulky, Plodding Boats
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Several times during the summer, up and down the coast of Maine, lobstermen soup up their engines, weigh down the back of their boats and gun the vessels in races.
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As regulators struggle to find a better way to manage the region's fish stocks, a Maine group offers a potential solution that should be included in any study of alternative management plans.
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  The tragedy of four fallen fishermen has become a rallying cry for politicians hoping to reform marine regulations they say threaten the lives of men at sea with too-restrictive limits on the number of days boats may head out.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. _ Florida's snook were in full retreat from winter, moving back to what vestiges of warm water they could find.  That put them in the "skinny" water of bayous, channels and backwater flats _ saltwater so shallow that it sometimes barely covers their fins.
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By Mark Taylor, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Dec. 12--When FLW Outdoors announced earlier this year it was starting a saltwater striped bass tournament circuit, the company seemed to have a good plan.
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By Tom Koenninger, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 7--ABOARD ESSAYONS -- A winter mix of rain and snow slashed across the deck of this ponderous ship as she moved downstream on the Columbia River, barely a whisper faster than the current.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 21 -- Even by the hard-bitten standard of the livelihood they chose, it was a cruel time and place to be lost at sea, tossed in the heaving, frigid swells, a few days before Christmas.
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Alinghi can feel the breeze, and another America's Cup trophy just might be waiting in the wind.
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Exercising safety is the operative phrase as North Dakota's summer boating season revs into high gear.
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The Marine Corps Marathon is famous around the world, but it's not a world-class event. The want of a few ducats -- in the form of prize money -- is the only thing holding it back.
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On a cold, raw, drizzly afternoon this week, Sherry Proctor put large containers with about 300 orange and green fluorescent buoys into his Volvo station wagon and took them to the Cambridge Boat House. He and a few others will start dropping them into the water tomorrow, marking the course for the rowers in the Head of the Charles Regatta ...
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THIBODAUX, La. -- Lynnette Bourg owns two boats: one fiberglass, which she and her husband use for pleasure cruises along the bayou, and one metal, 17 feet long with a pointed hull, which they use for trapping alligators.
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The white tents are up along the banks of the Charles River, and cars towing rowing shells are making their way along Storrow and Memorial drives. Just as the moving vans around Labor Day are a sure sign students are back in town, the influx of boats in late October is a sign that the Head of the Charles Regatta ...
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It's not the size of your offshore rigs, it's how you use them.
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Maine's urchin season has barely begun &#151; and it's already almost over.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 13--Last November, the roar of offshore boats in the Gulf of Mexico could be heard all over Destin -- and they'll be heard again this fall.