All Things Boat was founded by a group of sailors in San Diego, California.
Through happenstance, we all ended up mooring our boats on the same dock at a mid-level marina in Mission Bay. After ignoring each other for a few months, we decided to become friends. That’s the thing with dock-mates, you’re sort of stuck together.
Our friendship began with some dock-side BBQ parties on the weekend and then somehow that manifested into this website.
The All Things Boat website is currently maintained by Captain Ray Roberts.
Ray currently works as a diesel mechanic in Cabo San Lucas. He is the saltiest skipper we’ve ever met. I’ve seen him bring a half submerged fishing trawler safely into port in a gale force storm. The trawler had no engine and Captain Ray had no crew to help him with this task. To this day, I don’t know how he pulled this off. The following day, Ray pumped the trawler dry, patched up the holes in the hull and installed a new engine. That trawler is now employed as a salmon boat up in Alaska.
Captain Ray is also in charge of our Coconut Telegraph newsletter.
Any questions or comments can be directed at us through this contact page.
Thanks a bunch for visiting the site!
All Things Boat
San Diego, CA 92167
All Things Boat presents…
“The coolest stuff to have on board in 2020”
Each nautical gift item handpicked by Captain Ray Roberts.
~ Captain Ray Roberts
All Things Boat is a hub for good, helpful information for boaters.
The information superhighway does a lot of things well, one of those things is supply the information you want, just at the moment you need the info.
After browsing around for a few boat related terms, we noticed there was a scarcity of excellent resources for a few items that boaters routinely need. All Things Boat was created to serve as a central hub for just those items.
Our insurance comparison page is a perfect example. Every boater needs to buy boat insurance…but how do boaters go about deciding on the best insurance?
If you’ve got informed friends that have some time to chat – then you can pick their brains. That helps.
But – usually – they can only tell you about their experience.
What you really want is all the best options laid out in front of you by an informed third party. Then you can scan a field of ten good options and make your decision. That’s what we had in mind when we wrote our boat insurance comparison page.
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