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How to Beach a Boat: 10 Tips for Anchoring on a Sandbar

Learning how to beach a boat is easier said that done. Beaching a boat is an important skill to learn when you want to anchor on a sandbar or beach a boat overnight. Follow these 10 tips on beaching a boat, and just as important, how to unbeach a boat.

How to Keep Your Old Outboard Motor Running

Keeping an old boat and motor running is really no more trouble than keeping a new boat well maintained if you take good care of them.

Things you should never do at the marina

Capt. Casey Brunning of Hurricane Bay Charters in St. Bernard came up with a list of things that you should never do at a marina.

A beginners guide to Docker

It doesn't matter whether it is pianos or teddy bears, containers provide consistency that manufacturers and transporters can rely on. Just as shipping containers have revolutionized the import/export industry, you've heard that Docker is doing the same in tech.

10 Tips to Prevent Motion Sickness

Motions sickness, also called sea sickness, car sickness, or travel sickness is very common and is caused by repeated motion. Motion sickness symptoms inlcude nausea, vomiting, dizziness, sweating, and a feeling of unwell.

Sea salt from the Outer Banks: “This does not happen anywhere else on Earth”

Hatteras Saltworks set up near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse where homemade solar evaporators produce sea salt.

When is a gas station not a convenience store?

What's the difference between a gas station and a convenience store? It may not matter to you, but it does to Marilyn Nenninger. And to me.

Getting to Know the Peekytoe Crab

Peekytoe crabs are a variety of Atlantic rock crab. Learn how it got its unique nickname and why it is popular with chefs.

What Happens When Oil Spills Meet Massive Islands of Seaweed?

The young loggerhead sea turtle, its ridged shell only a few inches across, is perched calmly among the floating islands of large brown seaweed, known as sargassum. Casually, it nibbles on the leaf…

More Shell Crafting Ideas

With this overabundance of shells on our shores, we thought it was the perfect time to share a few more shell crafting ideas with you.

Tortoise Injured In Fire Gets New Hand-Painted, 3D-Printed Shell

How The Turtle Got Its Shell

This Snail Beats Enemies With Its Shell Instead of Just Hiding

Generally, a shell is an evolutionary trait that allows a creature to retreat from predators. This is the case for almost all snails. But at least two species of snails use their shell in a much more active form of defense—knocking the crap out of predators.

Fresh Pecans In Shell: Everything You Need To Know Before Buying

Fresh pecans in shell aren’t only good for snacking, and may also be used in enriching garden soil and smoking Louisiana style barbecue.

Winnowing: Separating the Shell from the Bean

Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, which grow as the seeds of cacao pods. These seeds are surrounded by a thin shell that must be removed before they can be ground into chocolate. During the 18th …

Discover an island off the Gulf Coast that has hidden Indian burial mounds

It's a real life ghost story. There is an island just off the coast of Shell Beach that has thousand year old Indian burial mounds on its banks. Adam Bowles goes on an adventure to find it.