Pim Van Hemmen

If you cruise and anchor enough, it is likely you will eventually foul your anchor on something. The important lesson here is to plan ahead and know how you would handle this situation.

After his wife had a stroke that made their 50-foot trawler unusable, a husband commissioned a handicapped-accessible power cat. They took delivery in May 2021, and for the rest of the summer, with family and friends, they explored the waters near their house.

Growing the perfect giant pumpkin requires good genetics and hard work. Turning one into a race boat requires something else

When Onne van der Wal needs to get his Grand Banks 32 from New York to Annapolis he calls on a fellow Dutchman

Since the early 1970s, Jock Williams has built hundreds of boats at his yard, John Williams Boat Company in Mount Desert, Maine.

Before Onne and Tenley van der Wal went down the Intracoastal Waterway on their 1986 Grand Banks 32 Snow Goose, Onne wanted to be sure that everything was in perfect working order, including the electrical system, which he found inadequate.

With the launch of its latest models at the Fort Lauderdale Show this week, the builder is back in the center console market

Experienced marine outfitter Andrew Cooley, owner of Cooley Marine Management teamed up with a retired orthodontist to complete an eye-catching 1969 Bertram 31 restomod

BoatUS offers these 5 tips to save your boat after it’s damaged.

Hylas Yachts, long known for its sailboats, brought a 44-foot motorboat to the Newport show and just delivered its first 49-foot model to the U.S.

We got aboard the Nimbus T11 to see its versatility as both a family boat and a vessel for adventure

Team Soundings checked out the MJM 4 to see how this model expands the possibilities of a day cruiser

The Life Proof GS-50 is the company’s largest pleasure craft built to date. With triple 600-hp Mercurys, it’s capable of 60 mph.

Team Soundings liked what they saw in the Sabre 43 Salon Express. This model is beautifully finished and feels open and bright

Team Soundings toured the Eastbay 60 at NIBS. Watch this video to hear and see what the editors liked.

The show will feature new and brokerage powerboats and sailboats along with the latest in marine gear and services

The 48-footer was custom-designed by Doug Zurn for the club to give its members more social spaces

The 39-footer will make its debut at the 2023 Miami International Boat Show

The sixth running of the Camden Classics Cup regatta was a hit and a launch party for Lyman-Morse’s new waterfront facility.

A trip across the Baltic Sea from Sweden to Finland aboard XO Boats’ DFNDR 9 provides an appreciation of Baltic and Finnish hospitality

The AC40, a scaled version of the America’s Cup AC75, is available for private purchase

Ocean Alliance is collecting whale mucus because the world’s largest mammals are an important part of the process that makes the oxygen we breathe

A science writer opines that Captain Cook was a “hall-of-fame bad dude” and that his sunken ship should stay at the bottom of Newport Harbor

The Nebraskan carved out a new Guinness World Record by riding a hollowed-out pumpkin 38 miles down the Missouri River

Electric outboard builder Vision Marine put its E-Motion electric outboards on a 32-foot Hellkat Powerboats catamaran hull to break the record

Two men joined forces to get more disabled people out onto, and into the water.

With gas prices continuing to fall, BoatUS says the waters will be crowded, which means the need for heightened awareness will be paramount

Norwegian scientists said the killing was unnecessary, and more than $25,000 was raised to erect a statue of the walrus to remind people to live with nature

Lori King swam 24 miles in under 9 hours, and sharks were not the only challenge

The Formula 387 will be available as a Center Console Fish or as a Center Console Sport model and will be revealed this fall.

Battery-powered outboards are seen as a first step in electrifying the working waterfront

Tad Roberts grew up on the British Columbia coast in a family of boatbuilders, artists and sailors and started out designing fast, high-powered boats; now he thinks it’s time for boaters to slow down

In a partnership with Twin Disc, a power transmission manufacturer, Hinckley recently announced the SilentJet technology that’s now offered exclusively on its Picnic Boat 40 S

When a massive lightning storm knocks out a boat’s engines more than a hundred miles offshore, an EPIRB delivers salvation

The new model joins the 220 Dauntless and 250 Dauntless as the flagship of the Dauntless line

On boats up to 35 feet, the new system eliminates up to 70 percent of a boat’s pitch and roll while underway

The sailor spent 16 anxious hours breathing from a shrinking air bubble before being extracted by Spanish Coast Guard divers

The service is facing workforce challenges that include recruitment, and childcare and housing access and affordability issues

The 1,300-pound walrus who sank boats all over Northern Europe in 2021 has returned and continues to sink watercraft

The Maine builder partnered with Twin Disc to create SilentJet, a diesel-electric hybrid technology that allows its Picnic Boat 40 S to operate silently at lower speeds

If there’s one word that describes what’s going on in Maine boatbuilding today, it’s “diversity.

After a fire destroyed most of its property's buildings, Lyman-Morse turned their Camden, Maine, facility into “the new working waterfront”

MJM has announced its latest model, the MJM 42, a performance cruiser built for couples

During the holiday weekend, the waters are going to be more crowded than ever. So, vigilance and preparation will be key.

The 195-foot ferry travels at approximately 12 knots and for the record covered more than 50 nautical miles

The Finnish builder’s latest model will be available in two versions and with optional twin engines can top 50 knots

The aluminum sportboat has an electric motor equivalent to a 500-hp engine and is capable of going 35 knots

The Axopar 45-footer, which can exceed 45 knots, is now the largest boat in the Finnish builder’s line