Fun For The Entire Family - Fishing, Sailing, Nature Cruises And More
Author: Steven Smith
When planning a family vacation, people often choose to enjoy a day on the water as part of the vacation. Why do families love to go fishing, sailing or boating? These types of trips offer togetherness, laughter, new experiences, and a day of fresh air and sunshine. The assistance offered on charter boats, tours and guided trips help make activities stress free and relaxing for everyone. Another benefit of selecting a chartered or guided trip knowing you are in safe hands as most charter boat captains and guides are licensed professionals with the experience, training and equipment to deal with the unpredictability of the local weather, landscape and environmental conditions.
Choosing your Guide or Charter Boat. When choosing a guide, charter or tour boat, it may be a good idea to consider the weather, traffic, and other factors, and plan ahead. Some boats provide charters on short notice, while others may be booked up to a year in advance. Depending on the trip, season and vessel you might need sun block, camera, insect repellent, water, snacks, a light jacket or even rain gear. Information on what to bring is typically available by contacting the captain in advance.
The number of people, age and health of your family group will be a factor in choosing a charter. Adventure seeking adults might choose a day fishing offshore for tuna, marlin or sharks while a family with young children might instead enjoy a pontoon boat that provides a scenic cruises or nature tours. Many guides and charter boat operators have responded to family's needs by offering a wider range of trips and varying times to suit the various age groups.While the charter industry might have once served mostly men, today's captains will be of both sexes and will offer trips geared towards all ages and skill levels.
Fishing Trips. Fishing charters and guided fishing allows families to enjoy a non-pressure day of fishing. Usually it doesn't really matter if the anglers are not catching lots of fish, usually families still enjoy the day togeter. The expression on a kid's face when catching their first fish is usually priceless though.
Fishing guides might fish for flounder, trout, bluefish, croakers, spot, drum, striped bass, shark, sea bass, tautog, tuna, billfish, mahi-mahi, wahoo or other fish, depending on the season, boat and destination. Other trips will feature crabbing, shrimping, clamming, or just exploring.
Sailing charters are another option. Sailboats from single occupant models up to top of the line ocean going yachts are ready to go, depending on the size of your group, time, distance and price range that you desire.
Nature Cruises and Eco-Tours. Waterfront destinations generally offer a variety of boat cruises, nature cruises, scenic cruises, sunset cruises, site-seeing, eco-tourism trips, kayaking adventures and fishing charters. Having a choice of guided trips gives families a bit of a backup plan and there is usually something for everyone. For more experienced mariners, boat and other watercraft rentals are sometimes an option as well.
Nature cruises and eco-tourism tours provide encounters with of wildlife and waterfowl including deer, ducks, geese, herons, egrets, plovers and other shorebirds, whales, porpoises, otters, seals and more. Local guides know the best areas for viewing nature and are eager to guide families to share scenes that just cannot be viewed from land.
Hopefully after being out on boat fishing, you'll experience best night's sleep you've had in along time.
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Fresh-Seafood and Chincoteague Island Virginia.
I like to go for tuna or shark fishing. Can someone tell me how far I can safely go on 27′boat from Bklyn NY.?
Hi Capt. Bill T, jtexas and alvarz.Thanks for answering my question.I own a boat for the past 15 years and been fishing for the same amount of years.Problem is not navigating channels but how much I can safely push my boat wich has 300 hp strait inboard and 120 gal. of gas. I have been as far as about 20-25 miles out.Would be cheaper for me to charter a boat but it would be capt.??? taking us there.I thought if I were to go for tuna it would be better fishig.That is why I asked the qustion.
Well now you know the size of your engined and the size of your tank. You still need to know how many miles you can travel on a tank of fuel. When you’re talking tuna your normally talking running out to the canyons in the Grand Banks and the start of the gulf stream. They’re 80 to 100 miles off shore. Your 20 to 25 mile jaunts are nowhere near that. You need to calculate how many miles per gallon you get and then determine how many miles you can travel out, have fuel for trolling, and still have enough fuel left to get back to port.
Good luck with your fishing…
The only other considerations would also be for safety. You need to have a tender or life raft , or both. A radio is a must. Just in case something goes wrong. You’ll need first aid equipment, navigation equipment, fire extinguishers, etc. You need to realize even when you’re 20 to 25 miles from shore, help and rescue are a long ways away. When you’re 80 to 100 miles off shore it’s that much worse. You need to be prepared for any emergencies that might occur. Extra water and food in the event of emergencies. You can never under estimate mother nature.
I like to go for tuna or shark fishing. Can someone tell me how far I can safely go on 27′boat from Bklyn NY.?
Hi Capt. Bill T, jtexas and alvarz.Thanks for answering my question.I own a boat for the past 15 years and been fishing for the same amount of years.Problem is not navigating channels but how much I can safely push my boat wich has 300 hp strait inboard and 120 gal. of gas. I have been as far as about 20-25 miles out.Would be cheaper for me to charter a boat but it would be capt.??? taking us there.I thought if I were to go for tuna it would be better fishig.That is why I asked the qustion.
You don’t have to go all that far. You can head over to the Mud Hole, just south of Ambrose Tower (if its still there) and get some tuna in season. I have also seen sharks there. Check it out on a chart. If you have time you could run your boat out to Montauk and stay over. Then its not a bad run at all to get to areas you can hook up anything. From there you can easily get to Block Island and fish the south side for tuna or shark.
how much would it be to go on a fishing charter boat in freeport, ny?
My friends and I were thinking of doing this, I’ve only been on the super spray and i have no idea how much it was. How much per person is a charter fishing boat? no party boats just plane fishing. recommendations would be great too, thanks.
A Boat for 6 people for and average of 6 hours could run you about 150 to 250 per person plus tip.
You would be best to call the captain you want to go with and check, the price of fuel has everyone looking at the profit line. Some great captains do not have trips and may be willing to work a deal with you.
Good Luck and Fish Safe !
reference for fishing vessel that can accomadate 20-40 people in or around montauk point long island?
im trying to find a boat that friends, family and myself can charter in or around montauk point long island ny for a day of bottom fishing for porgies and seabass, on the days of 9/12/09 or 9/19/09 someone please help thanks in advance
im from jersey but i no a few good boats around montauk.
The Rosie is a good boat.http://www.fishrosie.com/
So is the Viking Fleet http://www.vikingfleet.com/
Last the Celtic Quest but thats in Port Jefferson http://www.celticquestfishing.com/
Have Fun !
What went wrong today fishing?
Okay I’m seriously bummed out because this is the third time my family and I have gone on a party charter fishing boat in Howard Beach, Queens, NY and we caught absolutely NOTHING. Today we went on the Northstar II for night fishing for striped bass from 7 pm – 12 am. We went various places from raritan bay, jamaica bay, and rockaways. The captain stopped the boat and we drifted. The setup was a 5 oz sinker with a hook with worms. We let it go to the bottom and occasionally lift the rod tip up and down as the mates told us to do. Nobody out of the 20 people on the charter boat caught anything. What happened? I mean all 3 times we went fishing? Not only on this boat but other party boats in NY as well. We fished on the side of the boat. We felt a few bites but nothing after trying to set the hook. We see on the websites people catching all sorts of huge striped bass, bluefish, weakfish. Now I’m thinking it’s FAKE because nobody caught anything. This is bullsh*t. Anybody have an explanation?