Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans reports that weakfish have been taken in Chatham, along with some other noteworthy catches. Here’s the scoop: We thought it might happen this way: In a 2-day period the fishing blew wide open this...

Edgartown Yacht Club’s Edgartown Race Weekend invites sailors to Martha’s Vineyard from July 17 to July 21 for 3 full days racing and onshore entertainment. The event features the Big Boat Buoy Races, inaugurated in 2012, and the historic...

Wicked Local Brewster: The rebounding seal population won’t get a gold seal of approval from local fishermen. The population of gray seals around Nantucket Sound is rising 20% a year (according to Betty Lentell of the Woods Hole Oceanographic...

WickedLocal Barnstable: Construction on the Stewart’s Creek estuary habitat restoration project in Barnstable began this week (January 30) and will have some impact on local traffic, according to a release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The system...

CapeCodOnline: In March 1804, the Semiramis, a 120′ schooner, was headed home to Newport, Rhode Island, from a trade journey when it ran aground in Nantucket Sound and slowly sank. The ship was returning from a 2-year voyage from...

Boston Herald: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound and other conservation groups today (October 10) filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging the Cape Wind project would...

MVGazette: Cape Wind, which began more than a decade ago as the nation’s first offshore wind farm and has since been enmeshed in legal battles, political wrangling and untold miles of red tape, is inching closer to the day...

Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans, Massachusetts, reports on the latest action around the Cape: We are quickly getting to the point in the fall run where the fish are in a spot on one day, in super abundance, then...

Like many folks in the boating press, I have heard and read a lot about the Seakeeper gyrostabilizer since its debut in 2008, but it wasn’t until last July that I got a chance to experience the magical roll-reducing...

Newburyport News: Charlie Crocker has been fishing the local waters for more than 30 years, but he’s never pulled up a fish like the one he caught earlier this summer. Small, sleek, striped like a tiger—it looked somewhat like...