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During the next two years shipwrights from Mystic Seaport in Connecticut and the living history museum Plimouth Plantation in Massachusetts will be restoring the Mayflower

Fun to sail and easy to maintain, daysailers and weekenders are small boats with big benefits. Have you seen our feature on small sailboats? If

Have you seen the Optimist dinghy built by students and researchers at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology and SSPA Sweden, a maritime consulting company? It’s

After more than three years of work the Matthew Turner, the first new tall ship built in the San Francisco Bay Area in more than

Although the work of Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries Ltd. in Northern Ireland is now centered on offshore renewable energy projects, the company began 156

Repairs began Monday on the foundation of the 158-year-old Fire Island Lighthouse, which Superstorm Sandy damaged five years ago. David Griese of the Fire Island

Are you tired of raising a weighty anchor by hand? An ideal time to add that windlass you’ve been considering is now, at the start

Voyaging down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, which extends from Norfolk, Va., to Key West, Fla., is a treasure to experience. Protecting recreational boaters from rough

In 1985 treasure hunter Mel Fisher and his team found the wreck of Nuestra Señora de Atocha — a Spanish galleon that sank in a

Sørlandet, a Norwegian heritage vessel and the world’s oldest fully rigged tall ship in operation, arrived in Boston Harbor on Sunday to promote Sail Boston