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…

Here’s a somewhat strange story of a situation gone bad that the Coast Guard and other rescue services along the California coast worked together to remedy. Earlier this week Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles received a distress call at 8 pm. The call was  from TowBoat US in Ventura which was relaying a VHF call from a sailor on a sailboat in distress 18 miles east of Catalina Island. Apparently, the sailor had fallen asleep and when he awoke his friend and his friend’s dog were missing and the dinghy they had been towing was gone.  The sailor reported that…

The Miami International Boat Show that took over the city last week and had more than a thousand boats of all shapes and sizes on display is often the launch pad for new designs and products just being introduced to the market. So, that makes the show perfect for the annual NMMA-BWI Innovation Awards. Judged by a panel of boating journalists who are members of Boating Writers International, the awards are given out in a range of categories and are intended to highlight boats and products that show significant innovation, imagination and style. Ease of use and the adaptation to…

The Kadey Krogen family of owners, past owners and want-to-be owners is large, active and loyal to the brand and the boats.  In the past 45 years Kadey Krgoen has actually built and launched 650 boats and counting. That’s a big family. And, Kadey Krogens can be found all around the world cruising safely and surely. Owners are encouraged by the builder’s team to send in stories of their cruising lives and many of them do. They are almost always on how buying a Kadey Krogen set them on the path to fulfill long held cruising dreams So, we want…

At the end of their third week adrift in the North Pacific, they were out of water, food and fuel. They had lost their rig and outboard during four storms that swept them farther out to sea. And, they were down to their last flare. But at last, luck came their way on January 17, when the pilot on a passing cargo ship saw their parachute flare. Interviewed later, Captain Hans-Peter Jessen said, “Just a matter of right place, right time. Very fortunate. Jessen was piloting a Chinese cargo ship up British Colombia’s inside passage when he thought he saw…