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When commercial salmon troller Mike Hudson was asked to talk to San Francisco Bay Area high school students about his work and the Greater Farallones

The tall ship Oliver Hazard Perry will depart Newport, Rhode Island, this summer on a five-week expedition to the Canadian Arctic. The voyage is an

It has been eight years since Brian Trautman left his job, sold everything he owned and set sail for a seven-month cruise to Australia on

In the 1970s Ross Gannon, an engineer by training, and Nat Benjamin, who was working at Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, crossed paths on Martha’s Vineyard. They

Oracle Team USA, a two-time winner of the America’s Cup, debuted 17, its yacht for the upcoming race, during a ceremony in mid-February at the

The Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa, whose more than half century of service included towing disabled warships in the Pacific during World War II and search-and-rescue

All boats need periodic repairs, and the wooden tall ship Pride of Baltimore II is no exception. The offseason provides an ideal time for ship

For as long as people have lived near the water, they have built boats. On Chesapeake Bay, which the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum reports has seen

With treacherous currents caused by the collision of the Gulf Stream and the Virginia Drift, and the 12-mile sandbar Diamond Shoals, Cape Hatteras has earned

On May 19, 1845, Sir John Franklin’s search for the Northwest Passage began. He left England with two ships, Erebus and Terror, and 128 officers