What’s The Big Deal About Docking a Boat? Part Two This is Captain Paul Foer “From The Foerfront” with more tips to help you safely and more easily enjoy your boating. In the first part of this three-part series, I focused on allaying the typical fears that a new boater might have when operating in […]
This is Captain Paul Foer of Annapolis, MD On The Foerfront with another blog post about helping you realize your boating dreams. How old is too old for a diesel? This question or similar such ones are often posed on online boating forums by prospective boat buyers. The latest is from a person buying a […]
Opinions! Opinions, it has been said are like our rear ends–everybody has one and they stink. I am not sure if I would quite put it that way, but it is sort of humorous to supply it here for a bit of comic relief before I get down to business. When it comes to opinions […]
What’s The Big Deal About Docking a Boat? First of a Three-Part Series by Captain Paul Foer This is Captain Paul Foer “From The Foerfront” with more tips to help you become a more competent and confident mariner. As are many boaters, you may be nervous about docking in a marina, or leaving a slip, […]
I just read the following on an online boating forum: “Can we discuss religion or politics instead of anchors? We all know that the best anchor is the one I use.” This summarizes the often heated threads on those forums where boaters argue passionately about one anchor type versus another almost as if they were […]
When it comes to buying a boat–any boat–it is wise of course to know what you are getting into but no matter what you calculate or plan for, there will always be unknowns when it comes to a boat. You have to balance the facts, hard data, finances etc. with the romantic and aesthetic aspects, […]
This is Captain Paul Foer “From the Foerpeak” with Part Three of my three-part series on Conducting Person Overboard Drills or Person in Water (PIW). In parts one and two we discussed the importance of drills and practicing for rescuing a person in the water. We covered locating, procedures, and approaching the victim. Now we […]
How to approach the PIW Assuming you’ve located and thrown floatation aids to the PIW, how do you approach the person? How do you get him or her back onboard? First of all, observe what is around you in terms of depth, channels, other vessels or land. Where is the wind taking you and the […]
How to approach the PIW Assuming you’ve located and thrown floatation aids to the PIW, how do you approach the person? How do you get him or her back onboard? First of all, observe what is around you in terms of depth, channels, other vessels or land. Where is the wind taking you and the […]
This is Captain Paul Foer From The Foerfront with another article about boating safety and seamanship. The below is the unedited letter I recently had published in the November, 2017 Spinsheet, The Chesapeake’s monthly sailing journal. I hope you find it to be of interest and that you will consider the lessons to be learned so we can all […]
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