Is it really time to talk about putting away the boat for winter? Sadly, for many boaters, the end of the season is just ...

Hesperia, a city of around 99,000 people, is situated in what people call the “high desert” of California. It’s approximately 3,200 feet above sea level and around an hour and a half drive from the ...

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 ...

Boaters can do a lot of things after tying up at Constitution Marina: walk next door to the 305-foot USS Constitution that first launched in 1797, step onto the Freedom Trail for a stroll through the ...

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, ...

Six decades of uninterrupted family ownership haven’t dulled the Viking Yacht Company’s commitment to building a better boat every day. This resolve remains ironclad with the introduction of the ...

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 ...

ABOVE: MG Energy Systems’ Master LV controls battery systems ranging from 12 to 48 volts, making it a good option for future 48-volt system conversions. For much of modern boating history, 12- and ...

The nearly full moon was almost as bright yellow as the sun where it set over the Olympic Mountains across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the south. We casted off, ventured south and cleared Victoria ...

Take a left on Hidden Cove, and then go left again at the totem pole. Such were the instructions to get to the Port Madison Yacht Club on Bainbridge Island, Washington, a tiny but tidy sailing ...

Jim and Lisa Favors are pretty sure they coined the term boaterhoming. As Jim tells the story, it all started after they picked up Kismet, their Ranger Tug 27, in Anacortes, Washington. They hung out ...

We’ve all heard it: the typical conversation between a customer and a salesperson at a boat show that invariably turns to deadrise. “How much deadrise does she have?” the buyer asks, innocently enough ...