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.

Meet naval architect Doug Zurn, whose Downeast-style boats are synonymous with New England.

Two competitive sailors, one a billionaire, the other a yacht designer, have teamed up to create a revolutionary all-electric propulsion system for performance yachts that makes sailboat racing even greener. They want to develop the technology further, so that it can be applied to larger vessels and other boating markets. WATCH

Crab season opened earlier this month on Chesapeake Bay, and while recreational crabbers won’t hit the water for at least another month, commercial watermen are already busy rigging up and working their crab pots. This video shows how a professional waterman harvests these cantankerous but delicious crustaceans. WATCH

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

The Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, celebrates the  gorgeous and ground-breaking designs of Capt. Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.

Alison Langley is well-known for her nautical photography, but she also studied film at New York University, which she put to good use to tell the story of Marilee, a 1926 Nathanael Herreshoff New York 40 that the French & Webb yard rebuilt in Belfast, Maine. The documentary is 38 minutes long. If you love beautiful boats, it’s worth every minute of your time. WATCH

The Dutch city of Amsterdam has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop autonomous boats, called Roboats, to deliver people and goods via its canals. WATCH