Yet it’s here where father-son team Mike and Barrett Howarth operate Mag Bay Yachts, a builder of high-end center console and ...

Most classic Hinkley yachts are maintained meticulously, but the sixth Picnic Boat 37, produced in 2010, was an exception. Hull No. 006 suffered from a lack of care, and its decline was further ...

Before the advent of waterskiing, another sport took the nation’s waterways by storm. Aquaplaning first emerged around 1910, coinciding with the rising popularity of small recreational motorboats, ...

What a luxury it is to keep my boat—a 1987 Grand Banks 32 named Snow Goose—on a mooring near my home in Jamestown, Rhode Island. The location gives my wife, Tenley, and me easy access to great ...

At The Anchorage, a small boatyard on the Warren River in Rhode Island, the Rolling Stones come first. Gimme Shelter plays from a dusty boombox tuned to The Wolf 106.3. The sound bounces off the ...

Generally, when you see a product with Mark II after its name, it’s the same as Mark I, but with a tweak or two to make it a little bit better. Not so with the Nordhavn 46 Mark II from Pacific Asian ...

There’s a moment before sunset, especially in a slack tide, when things tend to slow on Long Island Sound. It feels like the world holds its breath. The water goes glassy, and the gulls fall quiet, ...

Their first boat was a Catalina 22, which Alison and Chris Major of Zeeland, Michigan, bought when their two children were toddlers. They had no previous boating experience, but they had a desire to ...

In the mid-1980s, there was a rapidly growing interest in midrange offshore sportfishing designs, particularly among those who wanted to tackle species found only in deeper waters. C. Raymond Hunt & ...

Sustained 30-knot winds buffeted Sea Nest, which was anchored on the south end of Eleuthera in Rock Sound, Bahamas, when I caught up with Julia and Michael Bertelsen. It was the couple’s third season ...

In most states, laws require the use of life jackets on boats. These rules aim to reduce the high drowning fatality rate—67 percent of boating-related deaths—by encouraging consistent use of personal ...

Beneteau’s Swift Trawler line has been a favorite of boaters who value efficiency, practical design and long-range capability. With the launch of the new Swift Trawler 37, the company brings those ...