Kim Kavin

A lawsuit in Maine prompts questions about what boaters should look for when evaluating any boatyard for repair work.

Attorneys general in 10 Eastern Seaboard states filed a federal lawsuit to stop efforts to allow seismic blasting and oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean.

Severe storms often leave piles of smashed-up boats behind them. Here's how agencies are dealing with their disposal.

The U.S. Coast Guard spent 11 days searching 350,000 square miles of ocean for an 82-year-old sailor.  He was never  found, but there are lessons to be learned from the tragedy.

President Trump signs the American Water Infrastructure Act, which includes funding for projects that could make boating more convenient for cruisers up and down the East Coast.

Escape the icy grip of winter aboard any one of these five crewed charters in Croatia, Italy, Australia, French Polynesia and the Exumas.

Frustrated with boat thieves, two owners take action and create a community watch group through Facebook.

They say the job of a U.S. Air Force pararescueman combines the skills of a Navy Seal, an Army Ranger and a medic.

A new documentary contends rogue waves may explain some of the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.

Five years ago, Sam Merrett saw the Ceres on the Hudson River waterfront and had an epiphany about education, alternative fuels and sailing.

Sargassum, the stinky sea- weed that blankets beaches, clogs canals and entangles boat propellers, is piling up at levels and in places that researchers have never seen.

The August 2005 crash off Bay Shore, New York, left physical and psychological damage that lingers to this day.

The town of Hempstead, New York, at least for the near future, is allowing the continuation of boating as usual.

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.

Fred Karash says that, right from the start, the whole thing felt like a shakedown.

In mid-April, President Trump said he was planning to remove summertime Environmental Protection Agency regulations and allow the sale of E15 gasoline — made with 15 percent ethanol — year-round.

As with so many things in boating, the story of Belafonte begins with another boat: Reef Express.

At the height of World War II, moviegoers paid about 30 cents each for tickets to “The Sullivans,” the story of five brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, who served aboard the USS Juneau in the 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal.

A Pennsylvania man who felt a 2016 on-water search by Pennsylvania waterways conservation officers was unconstitutional has been joined by the ACLU in his case against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Will the court’s decision affect other boaters in the country who are subject to searches by the United States Coast Guard and other agencies?

In the database of National Historic Landmarks there are all kinds of boats from throughout U.S. history, including enough fireboats that even a cursory search requires the fingers on both hands to count them. Some of the designated fireboats date back as far as the early 1900s.

In the online postings, the dust jackets on the books are torn and faded, not from lack of care but from love of use

Orcas can recognize human speech and “talk back” through their blowholes, with noises that whales don’t usually make.

When Capt. Jim Greer finished a 7,200-mile cruise this past winter, he acknowledged that he’d done something most boaters might consider crazy: completed the Great Loop without using fossil fuels or connecting to marina shore power.

Everett Pearson was a fiberglass boatbuilding pioneer who co-founded Pearson Yachts and helped to launch the J/Boats sailboat brand.

If viral videos had a smell, this one would’ve reeked like an out-of-control frat party at 3 a.m. Millions of Americans watched it.

If mussels foul your boat or dock on a regular basis, you might think the mollusk is the enemy.

Boat-trailer decouplings that lead to deaths and criminal prosecution are so rare that the Boat Trailer Manufacturers Association doesn’t even have statistics about them, says Darren Envall, the group’s assistant executive director.

No matter how much time Charles Yarish spends aboard his 23-foot Boston Whaler Dauntless, he can’t stop thinking about what’s happening beneath the hull.

For a vessel with such a big history, the lightship Ambrose looks surprisingly small. Perhaps it’s because South Street Seaport Museum has the 135-footer tied up across from the 325-foot iron-hulled Wavertree.

For a vessel with such a big history, the lightship Ambrose looks surprisingly small.

The Coast Guard had a one-word problem: A hoax caller kept contacting them, saying “mayday” and disconnecting.

In early January, on his way out of the Oval Office, President Obama denied a half-dozen permits to companies that wanted to search for oil and gas deposits beneath the Atlantic. Environmentalists celebrated the move. Titans of the energy industry fumed.

A retrial is expected on manslaughter charges in the case of Cheeki Rafiki, a Beneteau First 40.7 that capsized in 2014 more than 620 miles off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing four British sailors. The boat was en route to England after competing in Antigua Sailing Week.

On an otherwise typical day in August 2015, John Waldman looked around the waters near his home off Hempstead Harbor, on Long Island’s north shore. Usually when he gazed out, he saw the blue shimmer of Long Island Sound. On that day, however, he saw the unmistakable silver glint of menhaden, a fish known locally as bunker.