Gary Reich

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.

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

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.

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

Everglades is back in the dual console game with the recent launch of its 340DC.

Click a button on your computer screen today and in a couple of days, a smartphone arrives from China.

Palm Beach Yachts recently took the wraps off its GT50 Express, the first model in a lineup of performance-oriented sport yachts.

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.

Living the busy life? You’re not alone. Crossover boats make the few precious days you have on the water comfortable and exciting, without all the maintenance.

“Dream big,” is the advice Gary Reich’s father gave him during their first-ever visit to a boat show together.

Audrey Sutherland decided at age 60 that she’d undertake a solo, summerlong kayak voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska.

Boat lovers rejoice! Enjoy a sneak peek at 38 new boats that you can see up close and personal at this year’s big-three fall boat shows.

In late summer, Hinckley took the wraps off its Sport Boat 40c, the first of two outboard-powered boats in a new Sport Boat range.

More than 70 islands dot the seascape between New York Harbor and Fishers Island Sound on the New England coast.

Hylas Yachts has launched the M44, the builder’s first foray into the U.S. powerboat market, with construction by Salthouse Boatbuilders in New Zealand.

It’s a common dream among cruising boaters: packing up and slipping the dock lines to explore the vast waters that make up more than 70 percent of our planet.

Splashed in May for launch customer Jimmy Buffett, the Surfari 48 is the latest design from naval architect Ted Fontaine.

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.

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.

It was a chilly day by Florida standards, but the 72-degree, midday high was the perfect tonic for my mid- Atlantic bones.

A new meteorological buoy in the Southern Ocean may have recorded the largest wave — 78 feet tall — ever measured in the Southern Hemisphere.

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.

The Riviera 4800 Sport Yacht made its North American debut in April at the Newport Boat Show in Newport Beach, California, following its mid-2016 world debut in the builder’s home waters of Australia.

Hinckley recently took the wraps off its Sou’wester 53, a carbon-epoxy pilothouse sailboat that Tripp Design Naval Architecture drew for cruising families.

Nearly 20 years ago I moved off my 30-foot sailboat and started developing a fancy for stout-looking pilothouse trawlers and other full-displacement vessels.

With masts reaching high into the sky and carrying more canvas than any boat their size should, Chesapeake Bay log canoes require a hefty crew perched outboard on long boards to keep them balanced and upright. Watching crews manhandle these graceful, overpowered vessels is a summer Eastern Shore tradition.

Germania Nova is a reproduction of the 1908 schooner Germania, designed by Max Oertz. Built of steel in 2011 by Factoria Naval De Marin in Pontevedra, Spain, she is 196 feet with a beam of 26 feet and draws 18 feet.

I was a sophomore in high school when Baltimore’s sailing ambassador, the clipper Pride of Baltimore, sank.

Rambler Yacht Co. will launch its first boat, the Rambler 38. It’s a center console designed by Sparkman & Stephens and built at the Lyman-Morse yard in Thomaston, Maine.

Back Cove Yachts has taken the wraps off its first outboard-powered boat, the 34O.

Time seems in short supply for many of us these days, which is why daysailers and weekenders are a great choice for maximizing your time on the water.

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