Wheeler 38 Playmate
September 25, 2019
If you wanted to buy a rugged, seaworthy motor cruiser in the mid-1930s, a Wheeler was a good choice. Howard E. Wheeler’s shipyard in Brooklyn,
If you wanted to buy a rugged, seaworthy motor cruiser in the mid-1930s, a Wheeler was a good choice. Howard E. Wheeler’s shipyard in Brooklyn,
In the 1960s, the marine engine and equipment conglomerate OMC—known best for its outboard engines—formed a boating division. It would produce and market fiberglass pleasure
How do we get hooked on boats and boating? Where does our passion for being on the water come from? When did it start? For
It might be called the most famous jibe in America’s Cup history—and it proved a disaster for the British entry in the 1871 contest. Marine
An old, clinker-built fishing boat rushes down a wave in a following sea with a following wind, somewhere along the northern New England coast. The
Throughout the centuries, sailors have rigged boats in countless ways. Besides sloops and schooners and square-riggers, there’s the lateen rig, the lug sail and the
Among the things that inspire marine artists are periods in history, important events, and ships and boats themselves. Location, too, can be a muse. Some
An old Madison Avenue advertising maxim says that to sell the steak, you sell the sizzle. Don’t promote Grade-A qualities or lean and aged beef;
Designer Tom Fexas, born in 1941, began as a nuclear submarine engineer. In the early 1970s, he decided to design an “ideal boat, without any
Enos Throop was wandering his parents’ property on Long Island, New York, right after Hurricane Carol in 1954. He came upon a rowboat, washed up
Presented by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Two guys with boatbuilding in their blood start an electric boat company in South Carolina.
An adventurous couple makes an icy pilgrimage from the Netherlands to North Carolina in their Elling E6.
Alexseal Yacht Coatings has significantly expanded its Color Configurator, adding four new yacht models and three distinctive new color shades.
How the WSIA’s Wake Responsibly initiative is keeping riders on the water — and lawmakers off their backs.
Henry Egan paints a historic J Class racing yacht to create the sensation of being aboard.
A historical portrait of America’s best-known sail training vessel.
A weekend on this river near Narrangassett Bay remind us that good cruising is sometimes just around the corner.
The Tiara 39 LE makes a case for getting out on the water more often, in every kind of weather.
Seventy years after the first hull splashed, the Dyer 29 is still built and repaired by the people who know it best.
