The Pulsifer Hampton
The Hampton boat is one of those wonderful, enduring designs that has survived for more than a century, tweaked and modified by builders along the way.
Maintaining A Proper Lookout By All Means
Maintaining a proper lookout involves constant adjustment based on the prevailing circumstances.
Seamanship Quiz
Test your knowledge with these Coast Guard license exam prep questions from the National Captain’s Institute .
Of Pirates, Doubloons, and a Golden Gratuity
The buccaneers and pirates of long ago stashed their loot in the oddest places.
Rover 29 Cruiser
Sam Devlin takes June's Rover 29 design and creates a practical but pretty cruising version that would fill any mariner's heart with wanderlust.
Add a Bilge Pump Counter
Installing a bilge counter is an easy project that lets you know if your bilge pump is working overtime when you're not around.
Vetus-Maxwell Boatyard Tip
Sharpen your boating skill with these boatyard tips
Evo Center Console: Cubism On Water
Fans of Cubism rejoice: Your ship has come in.
Pirates Of The Caribbean
Political and economic crises are causing a massive uptick in pirate activity from Venezuela to Nicaragua and Haiti.
Yamaha’s Biggest Outboard Ever!
Yamaha Marine in May launched its XTO Offshore platform by introducing the XF425, a 425-horsepower, four-stroke outboard that is the company’s highest-horsepower offering to date.
Long Island Town Wrestles With Backyard Boat Slip Rentals
The town of Hempstead, New York, at least for the near future, is allowing the continuation of boating as usual.
Flotsam & Jetsam: No Ordinary Bystander
Modern tenders might be outfitted with 1200 or more horsepower and be capable of speeds of 50 knots or more.
May Day
On a damp, gray day in May, I trudged along a country road lined by towering hornbeams, across a short field and past the chicken coop.
The Hardscrabble Lives Of Tangier’s Watermen
It was 1977, only a couple of months before the original Star Wars movie was released, when my elementary school classmates and I shuffled up the steps of the long, yellow school bus.
VIDEO: New Ask Mario Feature Debuts On Soundingsonline.com
For the past year, Mario Vittone has been writing the Lifelines: Safety And Rescue At Sea blog for Soundingsonline.com. Now he is undertaking a new venture with Soundings, called Ask Mario, where readers can get answers to their boating safety questions. In this video, Mario answers the question: How often should thru hull fittings be replaced? WATCH
Spring Tides
The handwriting is familiar, but I have a harder time picturing the boy who wrote the words.
Huckins Fairform Flyer
The Sunny K, a Fairform Flyer Linwood 53, rides majestically across the pages in this advertisement from the late 1950s.
Drifters
Wind and waves set a double-ended, lug-rigged fishing boat to plunging through the white-capped rollers off the coast of northern England and Scotland.
Jamie White
Jamie White has sailed over 30,000 miles on square-rigged and traditional vessels and served as chief rigger for some of the world's greatest tall ships.
Researchers Say Slowing Atlantic ‘Conveyor Belt’ Will Bring Rising Sea Levels, Fishery Changes
Two recently published studies in the journal Nature make it seem that the 2004 film “The Day After Tomorrow” was, in fact, more science than fiction.
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.
Vesper Marine Class B AIS
WatchMate Vision2 has a new look. Its touchscreen still lets users scroll through menus, zoom in and out, select vessels for navigational data, change alarm settings and more.
Professional-Grade Breitling
Pelican’s 3345 LED flashlight has a sensor that adjusts brightness to match the surroundings.
Global Hotspot
Somewear Labs’ Global Hotspot allows off-the-grid communications including two-way SMS texts and emails, weather reports, location sharing and more.
Pelican LED Flashlight
Pelican’s 3345 LED flashlight has a sensor that adjusts brightness to match the surroundings.
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.