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Just Yesterday

Against the odds

The bow section of the tanker Pendleton is aground six miles off Chatham, Massachusetts, on the morning of Feb. 19, 1952. This is how it

The Ayrshire rescue

It was 1 a.m. on a cold, stormy January night in 1850. A fisherman walking on the beach spotted the Ayrshire, a three-masted ship, rudderless

From fishing to cruising

Talk about character. These three Gulf of Mexico shrimpers, tied up along the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, Florida, exude it. Today’s trawler yachts can

Four ‘wheel’ drive

The Michigan Central Railroad transfer steamer Detroit pulls away from the dock with a full load for a crossing between the Motor City and Windsor,

The ghosts of boating past

A fleet of wooden vessels from the early 1800s lies “beached to rot away, New York City,” as the identifier says on this image from

A row between rowers

We tend to think of sports as static in their popularity — as if baseball, football and basketball have always been the center of our

Hurricane Cleo

Chances are this big old flybridge cruiser, awash in Miami harbor and surrounded by debris from Hurricane Cleo, didn’t get a lot of offers. Cleo

Oystertown, U.S.A

Pratt Street wharf, Baltimore, circa 1905. What a tangle of boats, and what an assemblage of humanity — oystermen, fishermen, dockworkers and wholesalers, as well

Go fly a kite

Meet Capt. George Farnsworth. He was known as “Tuna George” to his fishing friends around Catalina Island, off Southern California. In the early 1900s there

When Havana beckoned

A U.S.-registered steamer heads out of Havana, Cuba, passing the famous El Morro castle, known formally as Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro.

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The Two Ways to Handle a MOB

If a passenger goes overboard at sea, there’s a 40 percent chance you’ll never see that person again. Here are the recovery procedures you need to know.

The Nanni T4.270 diesel engine

Repower Your Boat: Top Tips

Your old engine is costing you more than you think. Here’s what you need to know before you pull the trigger on new iron.

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