Gary Reich

Beneteau is taking the newest member of its Swift Trawler lineup, the Swift Trawler 47, on a 1,000-mile cruise down the rugged and beautiful West Coast. Here’s how you can follow along.

A 107-year-old Chesapeake Bay tugboat is undergoing a complete rebuild in St. Michaels, Maryland.

This new dual console rides on the builder’s sweet center console hull and blends fishing and family features.

This new family cruiser has three cabins, two inboard engines and one great open entertaining layout.

The builder expands its revitalized model line

The center console has been the fishing and family fun machine for nearly 60 years. Here’s a look at nine new-on-the-scene models.

The members of the Maryland Senate overrode the gubernatorial veto of a bill designed to permanently protect five oyster sanctuaries in Maryland’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay.

We join the crew of a schooner in a magnificent fleet of windjammers as the boats race down the Maine coast for the Cutty Sark trophy.

SeaVee’s new 322Z is a premium offshore center console with a sweet ride, courtesy of a stepped, deep-V hull.

Viking Yachts launches Valhalla Boatworks, a line of luxury center consoles powered by big outboards

Marquis Yachts, long known for its premium coupe, sedan and flybridge yachts, is relaunching its brand with a sleek and sexy 42-foot day/sport boat.

Angled and muscular-looking while still having elegant and contemporary lines, Regal’s 38 XO has triple 300-hp Yamaha F300 4-stroke outboards and a top end of nearly 43 knots.

Moores Yachts launches the M30, a curvaceous center console with traditional lines and high-tech construction.

Hinckley's Hunt Yachts debuts two expedition cruisers that are fast, rugged and built for the high seas.

Southport's 33 DC is for boaters who value family fun, fishing and entertaining, as we discover on a sea trial in Tampa Bay.

A troubling trend is evolving on the North Carolina and Virginia coast. Four whales have washed ashore in the last two weeks, and at least one is confirmed to have died as a result of a ship strike.

Soundings contributing writers and editors took home three awards from the 2018 Boating Writers International writing contest in Miami, Florida.

The 2018 Golden Globe Race, a nonstop, solo sailing race that prohibits the use of modern technology, started on July 1, 2018. So far, two hardscrabble entrants have finished, but only two remain in a field that started with 18 boats.

They call them killer whales for a reason: they will kill and eat just about anything, including turtles. Watch as a killer whale juggles a giant sea turtle in the air off the Galapagos islands for pre-meal entertainment.

Take a journey with four couples who simplified their cruising lifestyle by downsizing from larger boats to smaller cruisers just right for their needs.

Surviving brutal winters aboard a 27-foot boat requires naivety, a sense of humor, grit and sometimes, pure luck.

Three newborn North Atlantic right whales have been sighted off the coasts of Florida and Georgia, an encouraging sign for the endangered cetaceans after a dreadful breeding season and more than a dozen ship strike deaths in 2017.

The friendly folks at the Hardanger Fartøyvernsenter shipyard took a trip to Älvängen, Sweden recently to help twist some tarred hemp into four-strand rope using a mesmerizing 100-year-old rope-making machine.

This 50-year-old shark has seen some things. Watch as “Deep Blue,” a female great white shark estimated to be at least 20 feet long and weigh 5,000 pounds, swims with a diver off Oahu, Hawaii.

Mainers are no strangers to the cold, snow, and punishing winds of winter, but a perfectly shaped spinning disk of round ice in the Presumpscot River has some Westbrook, Maine, residents thinking about aliens.

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, is being tapped to build a brand-new Maryland Dove, a representation of a late 17th-century sailing ship that brought the first European settlers to Maryland.

Seventy-six-year-old Jeanne Socrates on December 19 made what is believed to be her third rounding of Cape Horn. Socrates is on a quest to become the oldest person to sail solo around the world without assistance

Vanquish Boats updates its 26-foot center console with a new forward cuddy, improved hardtop, recycled composite materials and more features.

Recently reprinted by Patagonia from the original 1978 first edition, Audrey Sutherland’s Paddling My Own Canoe is the story of her quest to explore the remote waters on the northeast side of Molokai, Hawaii.

Beneteau is replacing one of its best-selling models—the Swift Trawler 34—with a new 35. We go onboard to see how well she measures up against the first.

A deep low-pressure system off the West Coast this week delivered the perfect gnarly waves for the U.S. Coast Guard in San Francisco, California, to train crews aboard its 47-foot Motor Lifeboat.

You’ll want to have a closer look at the gas pump next time you fill up your boat at a local filling station.

Scientists in the United Kingdom have discovered that billions of particles of nanoplastics can collect in shellfish in just six hours of exposure.

When most people think about Chesapeake Bay, crabs and oysters usually come to mind. While blue crab populations have remained relatively stable over the last 15 years, wild oysters are still in trouble.

An Everglades center console with a shallow draft and 45-knot top end turns out to be the ideal platform for exploring the stunning Abacos islands.

A 110-year-old lighthouse in the middle of Chesapeake Bay has been converted to a rustic and relaxing B&B.

Kadey-Krogen announces plans for a new venture called Summit Motoryachts, a series of planing hull cruisers designed for those who want to travel comfortably at 20 knots.

Bertram debuts the largest convertible in its fleet, a 44-knot 61-footer with a seakindly hull designed by Michael Peters.

Princess introduces the high-performance, high-tech R35 with foiling technology, a slick-looking build that could change the way we think of sport cruisers.

Whether it’s a beautiful varnished mahogany runabout cutting across a glassy lake or a sleek center console taking on a tumultuous inlet, Chris-Craft boats have an unmistakable look and impeccable style, in large part because the builder has been refining its designs for 144 years.

Kadey-Krogen, the renowned builder of full-displacement passagemaking vessels, is getting into the planing-hull game with a new company and contemporary, 26-knot motoryacht

Seaway, the Slovenian builder of 33- to 65-foot hybrid yachts, plans to debut its flybridge—the Greenline 45 Fly—at the Miami International Boat Show in February.