Gary Reich

Mercury Marine added three V-6 outboards to its FourStroke series at this year’s Miami International Boat Show.

Viking Yachts introduced the 44 Convertible at the Miami International Boat Show earlier this year. It joins the recently introduced 44 Open in the New Jersey builder’s fleet.

The Foiler may look like a fugitive from the set of a 007 film, but it’s a hybrid diesel-electric “flying yacht” that rides 5 feet off the surface on four carbon fiber hydrofoils.

Dawn Riley, the first woman to compete in both the America’s Cup and the Whitbread Round the World Race, is this year’s recipient of Mystic Seaport’s America and the Sea Award.

The exponential growth of dual consoles in the fishboat market is undeniable. They promise a blend of fishing and family fun, a claim that Pursuit Boats let me put to the test off Miami aboard its DC 365 — the largest dual console in the builder’s range.

US Sailing named J/70 world champion Peter Duncan and Laser gold medalist Erika Reineke Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the year.

Some of my fondest childhood memories are the days my father and I spent crabbing on Chesapeake Bay each summer.

The oldest lighthouse in New York and the fourth-oldest active beacon in the United States, Montauk Point Lighthouse was authorized by the second U.S. Congress, under President Washington, in 1792.

Though the majority of seafood consumed in the United States comes from outside the country, there’s a movement toward sustainable, locally raised food from the brine.

A partnership among environmental and conservation organizations, state governments, oyster farmers and educational groups is aiming to increase the oyster population in Chesapeake Bay to 10 billion by 2025.

Pride of Baltimore II remains one of the world’s most revered tall ships, delighting crowds wherever she sails.

The Windjammer Elite sea bag from Morris & Barth Ship Canvas has an oil-tanned leather bottom, a matching leather center band and heavy-duty canvas construction.

Late spring brings a chance for Chesapeake Bay anglers to tangle with behemoth black drum

If you’ve read any DIY boat repair or maintenance books, there’s a pretty good chance Nigel Calder wrote one of them.

Hatteras has added a flybridge version of its GT45X sportfish. Introduced at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show last November, the new model offers the same performance, build quality and features as its sister ship, but with a better overall view from above.

Kilkea, a 268-foot, concept expedition superyacht, has the credentials to serve as the lair for an international super villain, though she’ll proudly serve anyone who can afford the $72 million buy-in price.

There’s something tortuous about magazine deadlines.

Yamaha Marine Group has added a 90-hp model to its lineup of high-performance V MAX SHO 4-strokes.

Australia native Jon Sanders completed a record 10th circumnavigation on Dec. 21, 2017, aboard his 39-foot Sparkman & Stephens Perie Banou II.

Largely considered one of the greatest novelists who wrote in the English language, Joseph Conrad was born to Polish parents in the Russian Empire before leaving at age 16 to become a sailor.

These 27- to 35-foot powerboats are just the right size for cruising and day-tripping.

Without overgeneralizing, Florida’s citizenry and I generally don’t mix well.

The 360 Offshore is North Carolina builder Tideline’s biggest center console power cat to date, leading the builder’s lineup alongside the 235 Hybrid.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That mantra may serve plenty of boatbuilders well, but not Beneteau. The company is resisting complacency by replacing its best-selling Gran Turismo 49 with the Gran Turismo 50.

After raising estimates for outstanding claims earlier this year, BP reported that the total costs of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill are around $65 billion.

A Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook heavy-weather crew rescued four stranded men from an “unseaworthy” 22-foot boat in Raritan Bay, New Jersey, late last year.

Big boats, little boats, beamy boats, tall boats, fast boats, slow boats: If it floats, there’s a good chance you can get a look at it during the Miami International Boat Show.

The new edition of the Vicem 58 Classic is an evolution of a design that the Turkish builder introduced in 2010. Vicem took the wraps off the boat at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in November.

Anyone who has cruised offshore knows the sea can play tricks on the mind.

Cobia Boats has been on a tear the past four years, improving and expanding its offshore center console lineup.

Sybaris is a 230-foot, high-performance ketch that accommodates 12 guests in six staterooms, with quarters for 12 crew.

The campus of Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, is typically quiet and serene. Things were much different on this morning. As I walked the grounds, the high-pitched whines of chain saws and power planers filled the air.

26,321 non-native lionfish removed from Florida waters.

The 5-gallon-bucket: It’s the unsung hero of boat gear.

Southport Boats has added a dual console to its lineup of center consoles. The Southport 33 DC rides the same hull, designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates, as the Southport 33, 33 LX and 33 ST.

Cape Lookout Lighthouse towers 163 feet over the sandy dunes and emerald Atlantic on the lower Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Keeping up with the ever-changing marine electronics world is a full-time job.

Few names in boating are as instantly recognizable as Boston Whaler. Celebrating 60 years in 2018, the company has a long-running reputation for building unsinkable, foam-cored boats.

The new C34 Coupe is the smallest of Carver’s sport cruisers and flybridge yachts. Introduced at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in November, the boat takes design cues from its sister ships, including a nearly plumb bow, opening ports and fixed glass panels in the hull sides, a swept-back cabin house profile and a cockpit with swim platform.

Racing more than 45,000 nautical miles around the world in thoroughbred sailboats capable of 20-plus knots requires specialty gear.

Designed by Bruce King and inspired by L. Francis Herreshoff’s Ticonderoga, Whitehawk’s 105-foot, cold-molded hull launched in 1978 from Rockland, Maine.

The edges of the Chesapeake’s Eastern Bay blushed with November hues of orange, red, yellow and golden brown as we motored out from Kent Narrows around 11 a.m.

Rimas Meleshyus doesn’t sail; he drifts, as he puts it, “Kon Tiki-style.”

Fluid Motion, the company behind Cutwater Boats and Ranger Tugs, hosted 400 people aboard 180 boats for a three-day rendezvous at San Juan Island, Washington.

Two stories high and with 2,208 square feet of living space, the Luxuria isn’t any ordinary houseboat.

Hinckley Yachts took the wraps off its all-electric Dasher at the Newport International Boat Show in September.

Cruisers Yachts unveiled the Cantius 42 at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in November. Cantius express cruisers are known for interiors that maximize space, and Cruisers wisely kept that formula on the Cantius 42, which replaces the Cantius 41.

One of the world’s most accomplished sailboat racers, Jimmy Spithill has been at the helm of two successful America’s Cup campaigns.