The Whales' Tale
At any given time, researchers at Allied Whale — a marine mammal laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine — are likely to be away from their small offices and instead somewhere in the Southern Ocean.
Evo Center Console: Cubism On Water
Fans of Cubism rejoice: Your ship has come in.
Battery Types
The world’s most common big batteries are called flooded or wet cell, as they have enough liquid acid to cover the battery plates.
Seamanship Quiz
Test your knowledge with these Coast Guard license exam prep questions from the National Captain’s Institute captains.com
Positive Stability: A Weighty Concern
Positive stability is a vessel’s tendency to resist capsizing. Negative stability? Not so much.
A Shocking New All-Electric Pilot Boat
Robert Allan Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, has released the design for a 52-foot, all-electric, aluminum pilot boat with a top speed of 20 knots and a range of 5 nautical miles. The boat is powered by twin 720-volt, 500-kW electric motors.
Steam Box Art
If you’ve ever examined the complex, curvy shapes of the planks that make up a wooden boat’s hull, you might have wondered, “How do they get straight pieces of wood to bend that way?” Steam is part of the answer, brute force is the other.
Don’t Wait For An Emergency To Learn How To Use Your EPIRB
If your vessel has an EPIRB, you’re not alone in an emergency. Distress signals can be received and acted upon within minutes, typically taking less than an hour for your position to be known to within 3 miles. That’s almost a miracle for a $500 purchase.
Charger Wiring
The size of battery-charging equipment has grown to keep pace with larger and more sophisticated batteries.
Divers Solve 76-Year-Old Mystery
Divers working 70 miles off Cape May, New Jersey, last week discovered the wreckage of the Octavian, a Norwegian freighter that went missing in 1942.
VIDEO: Going Electric In Style
More builders are getting in on the electric boat movement, but a Finnish electric propulsion maker, which has been installing its electric saildrives in various manufacturers’ boats, is now getting into the game with its own stunning motorboat. WATCH
Manta Ray Airlifted To Ocean
Apparently, manta rays can fly. It took less than two minutes for a helicopter to airlift a nearly 900-pound manta ray with an 11.4-foot wingspan from a Bahamas aquarium to the nearby ocean. WATCH
Yo, Duuuude! Get Your Surfboard
A new meteorological buoy in the Southern Ocean may have recorded the largest wave — 78 feet tall — ever measured in the Southern Hemisphere.
Spring Tides
The handwriting is familiar, but I have a harder time picturing the boy who wrote the words.
One Word: Plastics
If I’m really honest with myself, my love of boating is deeply entwined — no, totally inseparable — from my love of the sea.
Choosing A Life Jacket And Knowing When To Wear It
When I was in the U.S. Coast Guard, I couldn’t say this; but I believe the phrase “Always wear your life jacket” is terrible advice.
Lifelines: Ask Mario
For the past year, former US Coast Guard rescue swimmer Mario Vittone has been teaching Soundings readers how to be safer on the water through his “Lifelines: Safety And Rescue At Sea” blog. He will continue to educate us, but first, he wants to hear from you. READ MORE.
Watch Hill Harbor from the Lawn
Anyone who’s driven down into the town of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, and along the stretch of harborfront knows the scene.
The Greatest Sandy Hook Pilot
A late 19th-century pilot boat rides off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, at the outer entrance to New York Harbor, in this image from the early 1900s.
The Krogen 50 Open
The day was glorious by any standards but it was early February and anything short of a blizzard would have thrilled the winter-weary crew that had just cast off for Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Boating Books Review: Wrecks As Relics
Packed with powerful photographs of shipwrecks from all over the world, Stefano Banazzo’s 144-page Wrecks: The Memory Of The Sea commemorates these ships’ histories and the sailors who ran them.
Cindy and Buddy Purcell
Some people feel born and bred to do a job, but for Cindy Purcell hers is also a labor of love.
ACLU Joins Boater’s Case Against Suspicionless On-Water Searches
Fred Karash says that, right from the start, the whole thing felt like a shakedown.
Relief from Seasickness
The Reliefband 2.0 is a drug-free way to control the nausea caused by motion sickness, virtual-reality activities, chemotherapy and morning sickness. It does so via Neurowave technology, which emits programmed pulses.
Stay Connected
The mazu mSeries system provides worldwide up-to-date weather, e-mail, SMS texting, position reporting, charts and onscreen tracking, and real-time and NMEA navigation.
Steering Comfort
Schmitt & Ongaro Marine designed the Primus cast stainless steel steering wheel for ergonomic comfort and durability.
Westerbeke Genset
Westerbeke’s 29.0 EGED marine diesel generator set (rated 29 kW at 60 Hz and 23 kW at 50 Hz) meets Environmental Protection Agency emissions requirements.
Portable Fuel Tanks – Fueling the Fun!
When you’re out on the water having fun, you shouldn’t need to give your fuel system a second thought.
Icom VHF Radio
Icom’s M85 marine-land VHF radio is small, lightweight and waterproof to a rating of IP67.
Rod Holder Fender Cleat
This Quick Cleat fender cleat drops into a rod holder, letting you attach a fender without using knots.
