Featured Stories on Boating and Boater Safety

15 hours of icy terror on the Bering Sea

Only four of 11 fishermen survive a night of rollovers in a life raft after their 93-footer goes down

The Bering Sea is one of the most unforgiving bodies of water on the planet. This photo was taken aboard the Coast Guard cutter Storis while on patrol. The Bering Sea can be as dark, as icy, as wind-blown a place as you’ll find — one that can swallow fishermen and turn a night in a life raft into the most harrowing kind of near-death experience.

Caribbean guru has seen everything

Cruising guide author Donald Street enjoys a cult following — meet him and you’ll see why

Street began writing his cruising guides in 1964. Here is Donald M. Street Jr.’s day as Caribbean guru at the Annapolis sailboat show:

Many factors cited in powerboat tragedy

Investigators point to inexperience, poor judgment and ill-suited PFDs in capsize that claimed three lives

The seven-month United Kingdom probe of a 24-foot powerboat’s foundering and the death of its crew illustrates the importance of seamanship, being aware of your boat’s limitations, and equipping it with functioning safety gear.

The rich get richer, the yachts get larger

As wealth spreads to many corners of the globe, yachts are surpassing small cruise ships in size

So how big is “super,” as in superyacht, when the benchmark for extravagance is now a 532-foot yacht named Dubai?

A feat that has him standing tall

Mike Harker doesn’t do things halfway.

As a champion hang glider, he set a world record soaring from the top of the 10,000-foot Zugspitze, Germany’s highest mountain. As a water skier, he entered the famous race from Long Beach, Calif., to Catalina Island and back for the first time when he was 10 years old, and nine years later he won it.

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