While you’ll find lots of boats and motors at this Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, you’ll also be able to check out ...

Bowrise, or inclination, affects several aspects of your boat’s ride and handling. The basic thing to remember is that if the bow is up, the stern is down—and vice versa. So, if you are navigating a ...

I am a boat owner and also a recovery diver for the local sheriff’s office. The agency I work for received a call to assist a boat tangled in the shallow-water vegetation a few feet from shore of a ...

It was a decade ago that Bayliner last offered a near-30-footer with a cabin, the 285 SB. But by tapping into resources from its international Brunswick sister company, Quicksilver—sold in 87 ...

As one who worked full-time in a boatyard, I’ve got hands-on experience using boat stands. To this day, my own boat spends the Long Island winter on my own property on boat stands, as did the family’s ...

Methods for measuring and reporting horsepower of electric outboards are debated within the industry. Trolling-motor makers such as Minn Kota, Lowrance, Garmin and Rhodan report the power of their ...

From the front seat of my brother’s SUV, I smelled the faintest whiff of scorched metal but paid little heed—until, that is, we reached the launch-ramp parking lot, got out, and saw the sizzling-hot ...

Sōlace Boats are the brainchild of Stephen Dougherty, an engineer and boat designer of exceptional pedigree. His late father, Bob Dougherty, put Boston Whaler on the tip of ­every boater’s tongue.

It’s time to winterize your boat. Most important in the task list is to minimize the risk of something freezing and being damaged as a result. On most boats, it’s relatively easy to prevent this type ...

Just about the time you think you’ve seen it all when it comes to V-drive wakesports boats, there emerges something new: the KYMA K7 Supercharged. While the K7 looks similar in size, shape and design ...

Aluminum fuel tanks can corrode in a marine environment, though much depends on how well they are protected belowdecks from salt water. Shielded from briny water, tanks can last forever, but on some ...

Heading into the 1980s, the War on Drugs, enforcing the new 200-mile ­fisheries zone, and patrolling for migrants flowing up the Gulf Stream aboard overcrowded, unseaworthy boats and rafts strained ...