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Category Archives: Boston Harbor Navigation
The Brewsters: Great & Little Brewster Island and Boston Light
The Brewsters, comprising Great Brewster and Little Brewster Island, are ideally visited in the early spring and late summer/fall months when the massive flocks aggressive gulls are not nesting. Logistically, the islands are challenging to visit due to their limited public … Continue reading →
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Tagged boston harbor cruise, boston light, Brewster Island, Brewster Island Spit, Lighthouse Boston, Shag Rocks
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Cruising around Salem Sound: Baker’s Island Light & Misery Island
Baker’s Island Light, visible while entering Salem sound and heading toward Misery Island: This weekend, I made the hour long ride up to Salem Sound. Having passed by the area many times on trips to Gloucester, it was about time I … Continue reading →
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Tagged baker's island, bowditch ledge, marblehead, misery island, north shore boston, salem sound
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Tankers in Boston Harbor – Where is Majuro?
A large tanker gets pushed through the inner harbor by tug boat, presumably on its way to the fuel terminal up in Chelsea. Many cargo ships and tankers in Boston Harbor list a place called Majuro as their home port. I … Continue reading →
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Tagged boston harbor cargo ships, boston harbor tankers, majuro, marshall islands, tankers, tankers from majuro, tankers in boston harbor
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The Bonito Run
Bonito are one of the most fun fish to catch, and are also great tasting. You won’t find them in Boston Harbor, but if you are lucky enough to get down to the Cape Cod and the islands this time … Continue reading →
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Tagged bonito, bonito bar, bonito false albacore, bonito fishing, fishing marthas vineyard, fishing nantucket
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Spending the day on Casco Bay
Just to the east of Portland, Maine is a great, bright, blue and calm body of protected water, that is lined with the most jagged outcrops of rocks and islands. The coastline here is quite a contrast to a long smooth … Continue reading →
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Tagged boon island ledge, Boston harbor to Casco Bay, Boston Whaler, Casco Bay, Halfway rock, isle of shoals, ME, Portland
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A beautiful day along the Connecticut Coast
Today was a great day- although I wasn’t out on Boston Harbor, I was on the train down to New York City for the day. I passed by the beautiful Connecticut Coast today, which is one of my favorite parts about going … Continue reading →
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Tagged Boating Connecticut coast, boston harbor to connecticut, Connecticut Coast, fishers island, New York City, ocean view from acela
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The extremely useful NOAA buoy system
While offshore the other night, I was in the area of one of the NOAA buoys off Boston Harbor, the 44013 buoy. I was within visual distance of the buoy, which was kind of cool as it is hard to … Continue reading →
The “State of Maine” in Boston Harbor
Today the State of Maine, a Maine Maritime Academy training vessel was tied up on the South Boston waterfront. This is a pretty big and impressive boat, and it looked cool in front of the skyline. It is uncertain why … Continue reading →
Views from Fort Revere in Hull
Above, a panoramic view of the structure of Fort Revere looking North. Below is a view looking East over Point Allerton and Hull Harbor from the top of the fort. Fort Revere is a less well known landmark, which is … Continue reading →
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U-boats around Boston Harbor made it a tough summer for boating in 1942
Tonight’s news from multiple sources of the discovery of a WWII-era German U-boat wreck South of Nantucket makes me think about what boating might have been like while the war was going on…. U-boats in Boston Harbor That summer 70 … Continue reading →
