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
Beals Island has been home base for builders whose designs inspire today’s fiberglass lobster boats.
New technology like trolling motors and Power-Poles make it easier than ever to lock a boat in position without a traditional anchor, and that’s good news for bottom fishermen
Chesapeake Bay buyboats are hardworking commercial designs .
An experienced cruising couple share their favorite out-of-the-way stops along the ICW.
Our digital fleet of standout boats.
The Wheeler family owns two of the last trap companies in Rhode Island, one of the oldest methods of commercial fishing in New England, with origins dating back to Native Americans.
This 27-footer showcases the craftsmanship that defined the yard for decades.
With realism and insight, the artist explores the final chapter of a famed 1812 schooner.
Boat designer Michael Peters built a successful career on form, function and innovation
Pursuit’s new DC 365 is all things—joyrider, family cruiser, day boat and stalker of striped bass.
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