Destinations

Owners of runabouts, sailboats, fishing boats and midsize motoryachts are flooding bareboat charter companies with inquiries for a particular kind of vacation booking: the power catamaran.

Long Island's east end rarely fails to enchant boaters who want to be immersed in nature while exploring new cruising grounds

More northeast boaters are discovering the joys of cruising south for the cold months and finding pleasant stopover points along the way

A father-and-son boatbuilding team cruise 1,400 miles up the Inside Passage using solar energy to generate power and prove their vessel has legs

On the hunt for one of the first harbors in the New World documented by Europeans and misplaced by modern science

Newport has changed since the loss of the auld mug, but it’s still a sailor’s paradise that’s worth a visit

Catching and eating blue crabs kindles fond memories.

Where to find cruising nirvana just an island-hop away from Newport.

The next time you travel the Intracoastal Waterway, take the time to pull into Beaufort, South Carolina.

To really feel the atmosphere in Martha’s Vineyard, we explore the laid-back island aboard a Prestige 460 Flybridge.

This summer, why not take a voyage to “the end;” that is, the eastern tip of Long Island, where the town of Montauk welcomes boaters.

There are many reasons to visit the Connecticut River. Besides a new infrastructure grant that supports marinas, the river is a beautiful location with a lot to offer to boaters.

I fell under the spell of the Norwalk Islands early in life. My first dinghy, first fish, first outboard, first stranding, first (and only) dismasting and first island getaway — a camp that would have made Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn green with envy — all occurred in that enticing little archipelago.

George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson walk into a bar … No, it’s not the beginning of a joke. These three Founding Fathers actually hung out in Annapolis, Maryland, on occasion.

The history of America’s lighthouses is wondrously wide ranging. It is about the farsighted colonies that built the first lighthouses on the East Coast to welcome commerce to their shores, embracing the founding of the nation and its dramatic expansion across the continent.