Author George Day

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…

On Wednesday, Hinckley Yachts of Portsmouth, Rhode Island announced that it had finalized the acquisition of the Bay Bridge Marina on Kent Island, Stevensville, Maryland. The deep-water marina and marine facilities lie at the epicenter of the Chesapeake Bay’s yachting region. “Bay Bridge Marina is a wonderful location that allows us to offer our customers the best possible experience on the Chesapeake,” said Gavin McClintock, CEO of Hinckley. “This is an exciting step in strengthening our service network while also providing a world-class marina destination for discerning yachtsmen.” The new marina, which is well established  and respected throughout The Chesapeake, adds…

The short video below of a humpback whale swallowing a man in a kayak has been making social media rounds and there has been some confusion and speculation about what really happed. “I thought it had already eaten me and swallowed me,” Adrián Simancas told the Associated Press in an interview about his shock encounter off the coast of Chilean Patagonia. And, the clip does seem to show that Simancas was in the wrong place at the wrong time just when rthe giand humpback opened its giant maw as it was feeding along the coast. It certainly looks like the whale then spat out…