Michael Peters, Unfiltered
November 20, 2025
Boat designer Michael Peters built a successful career on form, function and innovation
Boat designer Michael Peters built a successful career on form, function and innovation
An iconic superyacht makes history as the first large luxury yacht to become an artificial reef.
Are you ready to buy that dream boat? Be aware the biggest hurdle to ownership isn’t inflation or rising interest rates. It’s getting insurance.
A storm of Hurricane Ian’s magnitude provides far more complexity than other storms.
The pandemic, as well as improved communications equipment is leading more Nordhavn owners to cast off lines and cross oceans, even if they’d never done anything of the sort in the past.
Owners of boats as small as 35 feet along the U.S. East Coast say NOAA Fisheries is unfairly targeting them with a proposed rule that would dramatically expand the areas designated to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, and that would require boaters to slow to 10 knots or less.
While the Sober Skipper Program urges boaters to have a sober skipper, MADD’s campaign wants to ban booze from the boat entirely—both organizations share a goal of reducing alcohol-related injuries and accidents on the water to zero.
In May, NOAA Fisheries issued a warning for the public in North Padre Island, Texas, to avoid an aggressive dolphin who has become accustomed to humans and is now displaying dangerous behavior.
A new law in Maine suggests younger boaters ages 12-25 take mandatory boating education classes
A new grant will help the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum continue to preserve the craft of wooden boat construction
At one time the largest passenger ship in the world, she also played a pivotal role in World War II.
A group of spirited Aspen powercat owners take on untamed waters off Vancouver Island.
One of the builder’s best models is better the second time around.
The Sea Tow Foundation helps make safety the steady force powering the future of boating.
The update of the classic 33-footer has lines that are instantly recognizable, only with more refinement.
Nowadays, boat owners don’t do refits just to gain speed. They do them to enhance maneuverability and a whole lot more.
For Taku Kondo, becoming an online fishing-and-sushi star was just the beginning of a career that now includes lots of boating
Maritime artist Joseph Wilhelm depicts the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s tugboat Cincinnati
Do you want to paint your motors to match your hull and tie the whole boat together? Consider this before starting the project.
With versatility at its core, this adventure cruiser designed in Finland is built to handle whatever the seasons bring.
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