Author George Day

Next week at the Palm Brach International Boat Show, America is going to have a special treat, the first showing of Maritimo Yachts’ flagship, the stunning 75 Flybridge. This Australian builder of high performance, sport-fish style motor yachts, has had a long and successful presence in North America. Now the queen is making a visit. Like Australians and Australia itself, the new 75 Flybridge does not hold back, does not shy from going all in and to compete at a world-class level in design and build quality. The 75’s lines and strong pedigree evoke long offshore runs to favored Australian…

On March 10, off the North Sea coast near Hull, the United Kingdom, the U.S. flagged oil tanker Stena Immaculate was stuck in a T-bone collision by the Portuguese flagged container ship Solong.  The Stena Immaculate was loaded with A1 jet fuel and the two ships burst into flames. One Solong crew member went over the side and is presumed lost. The Stena crew took to their lifeboats and abandoned ship after several of the tanker’s fuel tanks exploded.  All crew were rescued safely. The ship was destroyed. The accident occurred in limited visibility as a low bank of wispy…

Once the famous playground for the rich, famous and infamous, Ari Onassis’s mega yacht the Christina O is for sale for $93 million. The yacht is best known as the safe retreat for Jackie Kennedy Onassis after JFK and RFK were assassinated, and she married Onassis. The yacht started life in 1943 as a Canadian frigate dispatched on anti-submarine duty in the North Atlantic. Following the war, the ship was mothballed. In 1954, Onassis bought the frigate for its scrap value and then spent $4 million transforming it into a luxurious private yacht. In the years after WW II, Onassis,…

Every morning across the country, weather professionals employed by the National Weather Service, the forecasting arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, launch weather balloons into the sky. These balloons collect real-time data on wind speed and direction, barometric pressure at a range of altitudes and more The data is fed into the NWS forecast model known as the GFS along with data from NOAA satellites and a host of other sources. The GFS combines data from four distinct models: atmosphere, ocean, land/soil and sea ice. The result is a six-times a day forecast update for the planet and…