Jim Hendricks

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3 weeks ago | boatingmag.com | Jim Hendricks

Since ancient Polynesians first navigated the mighty Pacific Ocean, seafarers have sought ways to lend greater stability to their oceangoing boats. Polynesians built multihull sailing craft with wider beams that resisted roll to enhance comfort and safety-cutting-edge technology for 3,000 years ago that enabled this culture to navigate vast distances and settle innumerable South Pacific isles using relatively small boats.

1 month ago | boatingmag.com | Jim Hendricks

Today's new center-consoles have evolved into much more than just fishing boats. These popular models increasingly come with all kinds of family-oriented amenities, including optional or standard ski pylons, tow bars, and other secure tow-rope attachment points for watersports such as water-skiing, tubing, wakesurfing, and more. A prime example is the Sea Pro 225FLX Sandbar Boat. On the other hand, watersports rearview mirrors seem as rare as hen's teeth on most center-consoles.

2 months ago | boatingmag.com | Jim Hendricks

They had guts, those great mariners from the Age of Discovery. Though some are viewed today with a degree of controversy, the likes of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortés and Magellan still hold reputations as bastions of courage and exploration. How they did it-setting out on uncharted waters aboard creaking wooden sailing vessels, minds abuzz with apprehension of what might lie ahead, suppressing the lingering fear that they might never see land again-will always fascinate me.

2 months ago | boatingmag.com | Jim Hendricks

Military fighter pilots can suffer from a condition called information overload, which can be brought about by overwhelming amounts of technology in the cockpit that distract from the primary mission of flying the aircraft. This phenomenon has led to placing a second aviator known as a RIO-radar intercept officer-on board to relieve the pilot from monitoring, managing, and operating technologies such as radar, weapons systems, and navigation.