Sooner or later, every outboard reaches the point where you’re spending more on repairs than the engine is worth. When that day comes, repowering — dropping a fresh new outboard on a hull you already love — is one of the best investments a Cape Cod boater can make. The question we hear most at … Continue reading
The worst place to discover your engine has a problem is three miles off the Chatham Cut with the tide running and the fog rolling in. The good news: a boat engine almost always warns you first. Learn to read the signs and you can get it into the shop on your schedule — not … Continue reading
Ask ten boat owners how often they service their outboard and you’ll get ten different answers. Here on Cape Cod, where every trip out of Chatham means running in salt water, the honest answer is simpler than most people think — and skipping it is the fastest way to turn a $400 service into a … Continue reading
Cape Cod winters aren’t kind to boats. Between hard freezes, damp storage, and five or six months of sitting still, the way you put your outboard away in the fall decides what kind of spring you’ll have. Here’s the local checklist we run through in Chatham — and where it pays to hand it to … Continue reading
Every summer, the waters off Cape Cod turn into one of the best places in the world to see a great white shark — and Chatham sits right at the heart of it. Not in a cage, not in an aquarium, but cruising the green Atlantic water off our own outer beach. If you’re wondering … Continue reading
Ask any Chatham local where to spend a perfect beach day and you’ll hear the same answer: the outer beach. North Beach and the sands around the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge are the Cape at its wildest — miles of open Atlantic beach, no crowds, no parking lots, water on both sides. There’s just one … Continue reading
If you’ve heard that Chatham is the place to see seals on Cape Cod, you heard right. The waters around Chatham Harbor and the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge are home to one of the largest gray seal colonies on the East Coast — thousands of seals hauled out on the sandbars, bobbing in the channels, … Continue reading
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