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50 Years of Soundings

Articles include photos from old issues of Soundings. - It began in the spring of 1963, when three intrepid dreamers launched a skinny little boating newspaper named Soundings. ... more

The way we were

Soundings was 11 years old when Steve Haesche’s photo made the cover in March 1974. Do you recall your first boat ride? This is how so many Soundings readers got ... more

Not your father’s trawler

Today’s models are faster, more luxurious and technologically advanced, but can they be called ‘trawlers’? ... more

Bounty hearing raises questions on ship’s condition

After she rounded Montauk Point at the eastern end of Long Island, N.Y., a little after midnight Oct. 26, the Bounty steered a magnetic compass course just west of south, ... more

A legendary boat and family heirloom

We’ve all heard it from inveterate romantics: Pretty boats do resemble pretty women. While this notion is false flattery for most floating objects that are stamped out by factories, it ... more

Looking sharp: Keep your tools on the cutting edge

If you do any sort of woodworking for your boat, keeping a sharp edge on your tools is very important. Sharp tools produce better work, cut with less effort ... more

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Blogs and Columns

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When company time became sailing time

At this unrestricted stage of my extended life, I can cruise when and where I choose and stay as long or as short a time as I wish. But as a newspaperman in the early 1970s who was smitten with sailing, my proposal for a...

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Sea Savvy

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My 50 cents’ worth on those 50 years

When Soundings began 50 years ago, I was paying less than 50 cents a gallon to fill the 6-gallon tanks sliding around on the floor of my Glasspar Seafair Sedan....

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Why choose a dual console?

Like the minivan, it’s the many functions they offer in a single platform - When I was a wee lad (if only briefly) in the 1960s, we had a Bonneville...

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Used Boat Review

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Viking 35 Convertible

When looking for a used boat, the local waters often help determine the size and type to go after. Take New Jersey’s coastal waters, inlets...

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Mishaps and Rescues

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Destroyed Hatteras a mystery with few clues

The catastrophic breakup of a 50-foot Hatteras off the Florida-Georgia coast and the presumed loss of its four crewmembers has...

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New Boats

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Cutwater 30

This all-season, single-diesel pilothouse cruiser becomes the flagship for the Monroe Wash., builder’s growing fleet, joining its 26- and 28-footers.

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