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Boating Books Review: Timeless Beauty

Whether it’s a beautiful varnished mahogany runabout
cutting across a glassy lake or a sleek center console taking on a tumultuous inlet, Chris-Craft boats have an unmistakable look and impeccable style, in large part because the builder has been refining its designs for 144 years.

Boating Books Review: Wrecks As Relics

Packed with powerful photographs of shipwrecks from all over the world, Stefano Banazzo’s 144-page Wrecks: The Memory Of The Sea commemorates these ships’ histories and the sailors who ran them.

Boating Books Review: Can You Canoe?

With masts reaching high into the sky and carrying
more canvas than any boat their size should, Chesapeake Bay log canoes require a hefty crew perched outboard on long boards to keep them balanced and upright. Watching crews manhandle these graceful, overpowered vessels is a summer Eastern Shore tradition.

Boating Books Review: Dishes With Fishes

Though the majority of seafood consumed in the United States comes from outside the country, there’s a movement toward sustainable, locally raised food from the brine.

Books: Global Prophet

Largely considered one of the greatest novelists who wrote in the English language, Joseph Conrad was born to Polish parents in the Russian Empire before leaving at age 16 to become a sailor.

Dieter Loibner

An Electric Muse

A double-ender produced for a client decades ago is now a designer’s electric joyride.

Courtesy Boston Whaler

Fish Hard Cruise Easy

Design teams are rethinking everything from hull forms to seating plans as anglers demand boats that can run offshore, hit the sandbar and keep the whole family comfortable.

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