Soundings Editors

It’s primetime for oyster season around much of the country. Soundings’ senior editor and resident oyster aficionado, Gary Reich, shares how to enjoy oysters before your Thanksgiving feast, or anytime during the winter.

With winter on the way, more online courses than ever are available to help improve boating skills ahead of the next cruising season

Here's what we're reading, watching and listening to this month.

These are the books and videos we are bringing aboard this month.

These are the books and videos we’re bringing on board this month.

The books and videos we're bringing on board this month.

Beneteau’s Swift Trawler 41 Sedan continues the evolution of a popular brand.

The holidays are for dreaming about dream boats. Here’s the eleventh of 12 classics from the Soundings files.

The holidays are for dreaming about dream boats. Here’s the eighth of 12 classics from the Soundings files.

The holidays are for dreaming about dream boats. Here’s the sixth of 12 classics from the Soundings files.

The holidays are for dreaming about dream boats. Here’s the third of 12 classics from the Soundings files.

The holidays are for dreaming about dream boats. Here’s the second of 12 classics from the Soundings files.

The books, videos, podcasts and playlists we’re bringing on board this month.

The first day of FLIBS brought hot new boat models and cool new products.

The books, videos and podcasts we’re bringing on board this month.

Here are the sea stories we’re reading, watching and listening to this month.

Maine boatbuilder Back Cove will launch its second outboard-powered model, the Back Cove 39O, in late summer 2020.

MS Roald Amundsen arrived in Nome, Alaska, after traveling 3,000 miles across the top of the North American continent.

Coasties urge those who want to help with relief efforts to keep boats safe at home until conditions improve.

If you haven’t prepped your boat for hurricane season, here’s what you need to do.

Monaco-based boatbuilder Wally Yachts is known for making a bold statement with each model it introduces. Its new dayboat, the 48 Wally Tender, is no different.

Iolaire, the 114-year old classic yawl once owned by prolific marine author Don Street, this week was wrecked off the Mediterranean island of Ibiza.

The AC75s, the new America’s Cup boats, are shrouded in secrecy as teams prepare to launch their first full-size designs.

It’s Ferrari Red, has beautiful varnished mahogany and still holds the flying kilometer speed record it set in 1953.

Brianna’s Law will make a state-approved boating safety course in New York mandatory.

Legendary Carolina sportfish builder Bayliss Boatworks recently launched Tarheel, a 62-foot sportfish with twin 1,920-hp MTU diesels and a 46.5-knot top end.

A team of ocean explorers has discovered the bow of the World War II-era submarine USS Grunion, which sank on its inaugural Pacific Ocean mission with 70 sailors aboard.

A team of scientists this week announced the discovery of a 500-year-old ship at the bottom of the Baltic Sea that is preserved so well that it looks “Like it sank yesterday.”

British boatbuilder Sunseeker has taken the wraps off its Hawk 38, a high-performance dayboat with twin 400-hp Mercury Verado outboards and a 62-knot top-end.

The 1,055-foot, 133,500-gross-ton cruise ship Carnival Vista was recently loaded onto another ship—the heavy-lift dry-dock vessel BOKA Vanguard—for dry dock repairs in Freeport, Bahamas.

Sealine’s second outboard-powered model, the C330v, has twin 300-hp 4-stroke outboards and a top end of up to 40 knots.

The Greek builder has begun construction on its 38 Grand Sport, which it says will top out above 100 knots.

Albemarle Boats has begun construction on a new 31-foot dual console model, the 31DC, which will launch in Fall 2019.

While diving in a California marine sanctuary, a teenager found thousands of golf balls on the ocean floor. Now, a famous nearby golf course is promising to do something about it.

Thirty years after an all-woman sailing crew completed the Whitbread Round the World Race, a documentary film brings the rousing story to the screen.

The Native American watercraft, believed to be the only one ever found that pre-dates European settlers, was found in the mud at Cape Porpoise, Maine.

Dek: 46 Expedition Pilothouse will be builder’s largest trawler yet

Soundings and Power & Motoryacht team up with Prestige Yachts and Staten Island Yachts Sales for a summer-long test of the popular 460 Flybridge. Come along for the experience.

These redesigned workhorses are more powerful and efficient and simpler to maintain

Formula Boats reveals a 38-foot bowrider that takes the oversized dayboat design to the next level.

Here’s what we’re reading, watching and listening to this month.

This weekend, the Melges IC37, a new one-design racer commissioned by the New York Yacht Club, will make its debut in Newport, Rhode Island

When Victor Vescovo’s submersible touched the bottom of the Mariana Trench, setting a new deep-dive record, the last thing he was expecting to find is plastic waste. But that’s exactly what he found.

The Summit Motoryachts 54, the company’s first model, recently emerged from the mold at the builder’s factory in Taiwan.

Swept out to sea, two Christian teens prayed for salvation and got it from a boat that said, ‘so be it.’

A beluga whale wearing a harness with “Property of St. Petersburg” inscribed on it captured the attention of the world last week when it visited a Norwegian fishing boat. Now the whale is sticking around, prompting fears that it is a trained Russian spy.

Seventy-two-year-old Jean-Jacques Savin this week floated across the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea, marking the end of his 122-day journey across the Atlantic in a 9-foot-long, bright-orange barrel.