
How to Beach Your Boat
These seamanship tips can help you enjoy the sandbar lifestyle.

These seamanship tips can help you enjoy the sandbar lifestyle.

Smart maintenance can keep your ground tackle ready for calm nights or sudden blows.

Failure to check an engine gauge turned into a humbling lesson complacency at the helm.


A boating safety expert offers advice based on more than 40,000 miles at sea.

Even if your boat is equipped with a suite of electronics, know how to use ranges

Seamanship is a lifelong educational experience. Start with the basics and build from there

Delivering clear messages can be challening on a recreational boat with a relaxed atmosphere.

When a young boater saw two people in the water, he did what the pros teach never to do.

How to dock like a pro in tight marinas and tough conditions.

New rules reverse last year’s rate hikes, but economic fallout won’t be easily undone.

What We Learned About Safety From Lynette Hooker’s Disappearance

Ready to move beyond weekend boating, a New England couple discovers a cruiser designed to keep them on the water longer.

This Cornwall-built cruiser pairs classic lines with all-weather capability.

New technology makes it easier than ever to work (and homeschool) from on board.

Are you strong enough to survive 13 hours in the water? That’s exactly what the writer did when he chaperoned an ocean survival course.

This Maine-based school was founded to help people find peace and purpose through boatbuilding.

Two former sailors from the Mid-Atlantic buy and restore a classic Bertram 20 Moppie runabout

The proud “Monksters” have built a devoted boating community.

The proposed rule would limit most vessels 65 feet and larger to 10 knots along the East Coast during certain times of the year.