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History

All American

Paul Larson wanted to go hunting and fishing in the waters around his parents’ farm on the outskirts of Little Falls, Minnesota, but he needed

Proud Builder

D-Day, the 6th of June, 1944. The United States and its allies launch the largest amphibious attack in the history of the world, assaulting the

The Stamas Americana

Folks who went to the Florida State Fair in Tampa back in 1938 might have seen a couple of local high school boys standing on

A Solid 10

A bright red outboard engine mounted on the stern of a fiberglass dinghy has these two youngsters enthralled; for them, it’s the stuff that dreams

The Iconic Aquamatic

In 1958, the American boat designer and engineer Jim Wynne teamed up with the Danish boatbuilder Ole Botved to make the first crossing of the

A Boat Like No Other

A Boston Whaler Sakonnet hugs the rocks, putting a pair of anglers at the center of some serious fishing action. When this image came out

Style for the Seventies

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

Drawing Interest

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

All That Sizzles

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;

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