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    Product Spotlight | Doggy Boat Ladders Safe and Easy to Use for Summer Boat Days

    As summer continues to heat up, boating jumps to the top of the list of must-do activities with your family...and your family dog. Whether your dog is 5lbs or 105lbs, getting them back into the boat after a day of paddling and swimming is no fun task. Just ask any dog owner to show you the claw...
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    Let's Get Cook'n! | Onboard Surf and Turf: Shrimp, Sausage and Mushroom Kabobs

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    Product Spotlight | Use The Right Mount For Your Electronics

    To read this article, visit the ANGLER'S PAL COMPOSITE MULTI-MOUNT page.
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    Product Spotlight | Rebirth of the Jet Age Sea Ray Debuts Two New Jet Boats (pt. 1)

    Many of us remember the early jet boats of the 70's with massive Ford or GM engines powering Berkley and other jet pumps that could spray people off the dock just as well as they could rocket the boats to near triple digit speeds. While there may be a few of them still roaming the waterways...
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    Ask the Experts | Pulling an Anchor Made Easy

    One of the oldest and most basic pieces of equipment found aboard any boat is the anchor. Some of the earliest anchors discovered by archeologists date back over 2,500 years to the Sea of Galilee, and they were little more than circular, heavy stones with holes drilled through them to attach a...
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    Ask The Experts | Wakeboarding: Have Fun & Be the Champion of the Lake (Part 2)

    Wake jumps, spins, and inverts are at the core to getting good and becoming a great rider. It's just not about doing a spin or an invert; it's about how well you do these basics. For example, you will go a lot further by doing a perfect 180 turn than a sloppy 360. The same is true with inverts...
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    Ask the Experts | Don't Store Your Boat With An Empty Fuel Tank

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    Ask the Experts | Reading & Boating: How to Make Sense of Charts & Markers on the Fly

    Ask the Experts | Reading & Boating: How to Make Sense of Charts & Markers on the Fly Even small children know what street signs mean. Stop, one-way and the like come easily. But boating traffic aids are different. First of all, the words "map" and "sign" aren't even part of the lingo when it...
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    Ask the Experts | Eagle Eyes... Wide Open

    To the poet, the eyes are windows to the soul. But to a wakeboard rider, the eyes can open doors to executing tricks successfully, smoothly and with style. Visual awareness, what you look at and see while riding, can be the difference between making tricks consistently or being unsuccessful and...
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    Ask the Experts | Spring Into the Boating Season

    Brian Rice is a charter fishing captain who plies the inshore and offshore waters off northern New Jersey with his 2006 31-foot Contender® center console. The boat is powered by twin 2006 Yamaha F250 outboards. The hull and motors have over 2,200 hours of use on them without a major repair...
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    Dogs Can Smell a Sucker a (Half) Mile Away

    I think someone is trying to tell me something. Around thanksgiving I had to put my beloved black lab Morgan down. I still to this day miss her companionship dearly. There's times I come home and still expect to hear her familiar jingle of dog tags racing through the house to greet me, I still...
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    Birds of The Hideout

    There are a number of birds that call The Hideout home year round. They are too numerous to name them all, so I will list only those that catch my eye because of their plumage or habits. Crows get top billing for their vocabulary. After listening to them for 25 years I haven't managed to...
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    Travels with Daniel

    My Grandson, Daniel, is named after my Great Grandfather, Daniel Lawrence Braine. I have written about some of Admiral Braine's adventures here, and there's more to come. I had the pleasure of transporting Daniel between California, where his Mother lived, and North Texas where he lived with...
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    A summer trip to LOTW for Musky

    July, 2009: A final three generation trip from The Hideout to Angle Outpost in the northwest angle of Minnesota. It had become a family tradition over the preceding 30 years to make a Summer excursion to the upper Midwest to fish for musky. At first it was a trip to Big Sissabamaga Lake in...
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    The day the bison came to visit.

    It was a day in the early '90s. I heard a commotion in the yard in the early morning. Thinking it was my daughter's horses, I ignored it. Later, I stepped out on my porch with a cuppajoe and beheld three animals along the north fence of my 5-1/2 acre yard. They weren't as tall as the horses but...
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    Almost SUNSHINE IV.

    I found her on eBay. "1981 Boston Whaler Outrage 18" offered by BrokeBoats. She had been totaled by some insurance company. She had been hanging in davits on a canal near Sarasota, FL while her owner went north for the summer. Thieves tried to steal her 130 Yamaha outboard, cutting steering...
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    Airborne Invasion, 1943

    Our family moved from Carolina Beach, NC back to the Southern Pines neighborhood known as Knollwood in the summer of 1942. Our Mom was afraid of the war, which was going on regularly off the Carolina shore at that time. The sky was often lit up at night by ships burning offshore and various...
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    angus63 - Member of the Month

    My name is Rich and I am from Suffolk County, Long Island , New York. I am 49 years old and have been boating regularly since I moved from Queens, NY to Long Island when I was six years old. 1986 21' Trophy w/ 1995 175 HP Evinrude Oceanpro. In the background, 1978 17' Renken w/ 50 HP...
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    An Early Racing Kart: Brutus Minimus

    About 1960 Kart racing was hot rodding and open wheel racing in miniature. I had been racing for a few years with pretty regular success, but the availability of more powerful engines designed specifically for kart racing and more refined chassis were pricing me way out of the market. A Navy...
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    Adventures with a Different Kind of Hot Rod

    In 1971 we bought a 1970 Volkswagen Bus. We had four children and wanted to travel with them. Our '54 Ford Ranchwagon just couldn't handle six or seven people plus camping and fishing gear for the family. I had installed a pair of Olds buckets in the front, so it was strictly a 5 passenger car...
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