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MasterCraft goes cruising

With its metallic flake gelcoat, blue-tint glass hardtop and joystick steering, the new MasterCraft 300 stands out in the crowded sport cruiser market.

“We want people to know that we’re not just a ski-boat company,” says MasterCraft senior design engineer Kurt Bergstrom.

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Discarded EPIRB triggers a $5,500 fine

Tossed into the Pacific, the beacon did its job, touching off a $35,000 Coast Guard search

Whether it was an honest mistake or recklessness, a commercial fishing boat owner is on the hook for a $5,500 fine because a crewman discarded a working EPIRB by tossing it overboard, unknowingly activating it.

Welder could go to jail for keel failure

After fatal capsize, four manslaughter counts levied in rare ‘wicked’ negligence case

This much is fact, both the prosecutor and the two criminal defendants agree:

Expanding horizons for the non-intrepid

Cruising Club of America salutes couple for taking others on voyages they wouldn’t undertake alone

John Harries had sailed some 60,000 miles, crossing the Atlantic and venturing into the northern high latitudes, but he never was cited by the Cruising Club of America until Phyllis Nickel, a landlubber, stepped aboard Morgan’s Cloud, his 56-foot aluminum cutter.

Tragedy leads to better icing alerts

A new forecast model with the ability to produce computer maps can better predict icing conditions

The icing aboard this Coast Guard harbor tug's pilothouse shows how the vessel could become top-heavy. On the night of Jan. 26, 2007, the stern trawler Lady of Grace capsized and sank in brutal cold on Nantucket Sound, with the loss of all four crewmembers.

A winter storm was threatening and, after three days on Georges Bank, the 79-foot fishing boat was headed back to New Bedford, Mass., with 15,000 pounds of fish on board.

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