Tom Richardson
Tom Richardson is the co-director and host of BoatingLocal. Before that he served as the editor of Northeast Boating from 2005 to 2009, and as managing editor of Salt Water Sportsman magazine from 1995 to 2004. He lives, boats and fishes in southeastern Massachusetts with his wife and three kids.
Castine Names & Numbers
Getting There: Charts: NOAA 13302, 13309 Castine and the Bagaduce River are approximately 85 nautical miles northeast of Portland, Maine, and roughly 28 nautical miles south of Bangor, Maine, on the eastern shore of Penobscot Bay. From the south...
Buried Munitions Discovered on Martha’s Vineyard Beaches
Boston.com reports on some dangerous live munitions that have recently been discovered on a Martha’s Vineyard beach, a month after 3 unexploded, 100-pound WW II-era bombs were found on Chappaquiddick Island: “Tom Rancich, a former Navy SEAL who earned...
Newport Still Alive in America’s Cup Hosting Bid
According to Boston.com, a spokesman for Rhode Island Gov.-elect Lincoln Chafee says Chafee and representatives of the Golden Gate Yacht Club all agree that Newport is the “natural home for the America’s Cup.” This could mean a return of...
Flying Santa to Be Honored This Saturday
The Flying Santa event for Maine and New Hampshire is now scheduled for Saturday, December 18, after 2 weather-related postponements. Capt. James McPherson, commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Northern New England, will present a Coast Guard Certificate of...
Fishing and Rigging the RonZ
Ron Poirier is one of those guys who loves to talk fishing. Get him started and you may hear some wonderful stories about his early years on Cape Cod, when he and his dad patrolled the beaches during the...
Magic Ferry to Lead Portland Parade of Lights
Maine’s Portland Harbor will glow this Saturday, Dec. 18, during the annual Parade of Lights. Commercial and pleasure craft bedecked in holiday finery will cruise the inner harbor to celebrate winter and the holidays with a boat parade, led...
RI’s Pearson Composites Gets New Name
Pearson Composites of Warren, Rhode Island, builders of Alerion sailing yachts, True North poweryachts and North Rip sportfishing boats, announced that it has changed its name to Pearson Marine Group. The move is designed to draw attention to Pearson’s...
Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen Vow to Fight Wind Farm, Feds
The Vineyard Gazette of Martha’s Vineyard reports on the ongoing struggle of local fishermen to keep the waters surrounding Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound open to fishing (primarily conch fishing) rather than see it usurped by the massive Cape...
Buzzards Bay Project Funding Creates Controversy
SouthCoast Today: The city and the Coalition for Buzzards Bay on Friday submitted revised project budgets to the New Bedford Harbor Trustee Council, outlining how the 5 projects proposed by the 2 entities can be funded from the trust’s...
Conn. Power Plant Leaks Oil into LI Sound
The Hour reports that a malfunction in the oil tank ventilation system at the NRG Energy, Inc. power plant on Manresa Island in Norwalk, Connecticut, caused a small amount of oil to leak into Long Island Sound on Tuesday....
