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Clay Coupla things to keep in mind when it comes time to sinking those huge lumps. Stability! With a crane on board the barge has a high risk of instability as the load is reduced and deposited. Wait for perfect weather and unload the barge from a seperate, rafted crane -- either on a seperate stabl...

Wow. Now that is the way to put down a permanent fish attractor. Congratulations. Hope you come back with the numbers. The reefs we built when I was involved with the Florida Keys Artifical Reef Association were primarily concrete hunks of the old Keys bridges. The head boats still can make their da...

Buju I shoulda mentioned that these impermanent ship and train car shallow reefs are great for divers, not just anglers. As long as they don't wander into unexpected places. I still say they are best for everybody when they are properly secured, then you can safely stack them for best relief and not...

Yer welcome.

It got so cold for so long here in Miami my 40 year old cement pond split laterally and lengthwize and is now slowly leaking out some expensive water. However as a sign of spring, the warming water is now filled with larve who want to grow up to be mosquitoes. I gotta go get me some chlorine!

Ok here is what I was saying about the risks of building artificial reefs from vessels and barges and subway cars and stuff like that. The experts agree that this stuff won’t stay were you put it because it offers a resistant side to the ocean currents and gets tossed all over the place when a sto...

Ed I got in this thru the backdoor. A boat hit something in an artificial reef area is what I heard. I went to the place where the Plantiff has posted some of the images to see what it looked like. I was told the fotos were fresh from Nov. 11 after the Nov.6 sinking. I looked at the images and read ...

Sim: You are correct in your judgement of my tone. The captain is a real person and his mate may have been a real salt. And I don't know any difference. I think my years in the Keys and around the magazines (and my wife's ex broker boyfriend) have corrupted my attititude toward yacht broker/delivery...

Mikey, sorry I missed your post. Randall, thanks for the kind words. And Bruce, thanks of URLizing my post.

Thanks for the welcome. Thanks for the stern advice. Rules are rules. My blog --- http://seshippingnews.typepad.com -- since you asked-- is about shipping issues, ports and trade and ships and things, not so much about yachts and sport fishing. However I am always attendant to things that threaten o...

Blog Virgin ravished by Yacht Forum Hi Until last night I was virgin when it comes to blogs. Last night I had a great time on my first date with Yacht Forum bantering with their arm chair captains about the sinking of that 63 Bertram off South Carolina and what role the Bill Perry artificial reef de...