Boating Life in New England

A random fence installer entertaining the neighborhood...May 2022.

From sunrise rising over Logan Airport in Boston Harbor on July 3rd to watching the excellent fireworks in Salem Harbor on July 4th.

Video from the northern tip of Plum Island, MA with 2 USCG boats training in the mouth of the river with ~10-feet seas. Waves are crashing over the northern jetty in the background.

Sorry for the grainy video, it was shared via text message. This was taken late in the afternoon after a cloudy morning. We ventured out of the Merrimack River and were floating just out of the frame when the camera initially pans left, a couple hundred yards off Salisbury Beach. We saw this happen...thought it actually hit the boat! These guys are friends of a friend and were floating in a center console, just outside the mouth of the Merrimack River. What you can't tell from the grainy video is that there are Pogies jumping all around the boat. There were 2 Humpback whales schooling the Pogies. This one took a run at them heading east. Just after this video, the other whale came north toward us (dumbass forgot to take out his phone). The whale surfaced to take a breath about 20 feet off our bow, then dove right under our boat (our prior boat, Silverton 34C), just missing us. I had the engines running, so he knew exactly where we were. Exciting nonetheless!

Video taken from the mouth of the Essex River in Ipswich, MA where we anchored to ride out the storm that came in 15 minutes later. The wind was 60 mph and the flat water turned to 2.5-feet white caps chop coming off the sanbar in front of Crane's Beach.