Soundings Editors

Four owners explain their reasons for repowering their boats with new outboards

Feedback on favorite dock and dines, readers share photos of their boats and advice for new boaters.

Soundings readers share the locations of their favorite waterfront restaurants

Longtime subscriber Stephen S. Gray suggests his original Able Marine Wolf Class 44 designed by Chuck Paine and built in Maine by Able, be featured in Soundings Classics section.

Tell us where you take your crew when they're hungry.

During the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, a pod of dolphins leads the way as the Australian maxi yacht Brindabella weathers storm conditions off Tasman Island.

These are the books, videos and podcasts we are brining on board.

This aluminum-hulled speed demon descended from the workboats of British Columbia.

The books, videos and podcasts we are brining aboard this month.

Editors Gary Reich and Pim Van Hemmen discuss some of the latest fishing boats to hit the market

Soundings editors Gary Reich and Pim Van Hemmen talk about the most recent Downeast-style boats to hit the market, including the Sabre 58, the MJM 53z and the True North 34 Outboard Express.

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

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

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

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

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

If you’re going to explore Italy’s Lake Como, you need the proper boat, and now you can rent a Riva.

It takes a lot of manhours, great boatbuilding skills and attention to detail to build a Buzzards Bay 15. Artisan Boatworks of Rockport, Maine, just completed its seventh version of this classic and elegant sailboat.

A wildlife photographer accidentally ended up in a whale’s mouth but got spat out. WATCH VIDEO

Parts of a model boat that were taken from King Tut’s tomb and considered lost to time were found in a box by a museum conservator.

With one more vote, Maryland could become the first state to ban expanded polystyrene to help protect the Chesapeake Bay.

Soundings editors roamed the docks and tents on the first day of the 2019 Miami International Boat Show. Here are six products that made a big impression.

New technology from Raymarine may make embarrassing docking mishaps a thing of the past. This video humourously demonstrates the company’s DockSense assisted-docking technology in action. WATCH

The 2018 winners of the Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition show the ocean’s inhabitants in their full and spectacular splendor.

The magnetic north pole’s movement has sped up dramatically in the last 25 years, moving from Canada towards Siberia and causing cartographers and scientists headaches. READ MORE

Blackbeard and other pirates may have been social reformers and opponents to King George well before the American Revolution took place.

Working from speeding boats and helicopters, the Italian Coast Guard uses Newfoundland dogs to rescue people from the water. READ

It may not be one of the two actual Boeing 747-200B/VC-25 jets that are known as Air Force One when President Trump is onboard, but a replica of the famous aircraft this week created quite a sight as it was floated from Narragansett Bay to the Potomac River near Washington, DC.

Voyaging past the dry deserts of Chile to the green forests of northern Patagonia to the wind-ravaged islands of south Patagonia puts everything in proper perspective. We are merely insignificant visitors in a vast and beautiful world.

Most of our scariest moments are in marinas, but ours was in the Gulf of Mannar, between Sri Lanka and India — 10 days, two with very high winds, 35 knots, high seas on the beam.

Image: Onne van der Wal

Elizabeth (Tiedemann) duPont got her first taste of the sea while in her early 20s off Newport, Rhode Island, watching the final race of the 1983 America’s Cup from an 85-foot spectator boat.

If you live in an area where boating has a cold off-season, there’s no better place than the Miami International Boat Show to shake off the winter blues. The event kicks off Feb. 15 on Virginia Key and runs through Feb. 19.

Lucky John England. The former master shipwright at Rockport Marine, in Rockport, Maine, England has probably never worked on an ugly boat.

Test your knowledge with these Coast Guard license exam prep questions from the National Captain’s Institute captains.com

Built in 1889, the traditional Chesapeake Bay sailing bugeye Edna E. Lockwood is getting a fresh lease on life at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, where shipwrights are installing a new handcrafted log bottom hewn from 12 loblolly pine logs. This video has the latest on the restoration