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The 250-foot coastal liner Princess May sits high and dry on rocks near Sentinel Island in Alaska’s Lynn Canal.

It’s well before dawn in Maine, and 15 miles offshore, in the early morning murk, a Jonesport lobster boat is getting ready to go to work.

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.

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

Photography by Onne van der Wal

Few pirates were bold and successful enough to leave a significant mark on history. Meet the notorious, and possibly deranged, Edward Low.

Hinckley's Picnic Boat 40 is the latest iteration of the builder's iconic and best-selling design. Come along as Pim Van Hemmen gets a ride.

Sam Temple started working at Rockport Marine in  Rockport, Maine, when he was 11 years old. Today he co-owns and runs the place.

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 presidency used to come with a yacht.

Don Demers’ oil painting “Rescuers from the Deep; USS Scamp” tells a dramatic tale.

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

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.

The most important ship restoration project in America at this moment is attracting big crowds.

Cape Rosier, Maine by Pim Van Hemmen

Jim Moores has restored more than 100 antique and classic boats over the past 35 years, including the 1930 93-foot Defoe-designed Presidential yacht Honey Fitz.

San Diego, California by Pim Van Hemmen

In May 1940, some 385,000 Allied soldiers needed rescuing from the shores of northern France.

The Sunny K, a Fairform Flyer Linwood 53, rides majestically across the pages in this advertisement from the late 1950s.

Wind and waves set a double-ended, lug-rigged fishing boat to plunging through the white-capped rollers off the coast of northern England and Scotland.

Jamie White  has sailed over 30,000 miles on square-rigged and traditional vessels and served as chief rigger for some of the world's greatest tall ships.

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.