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 ...

Trolling motors aren’t just for trolling anymore. These electric powerplants are used for position-keeping, controlling drifts, and mounting transducers for forward-facing sonar. Today, a trolling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the seventh year in a row, Finland has been named the Happiest Country in the World by the World Happiness Report, and I have a theory that it’s because their population owns more boats per capita ...

I was lying on my ­stomach, floating on the Ashley ­River on what appeared to be a surfboard until I pressed a couple of ­buttons on the remote-control unit strapped to my wrist. I started to glide ...

For a brief time after Robert “RT” Trosset graduated from the University of Florida in 1974, he sold life insurance—and hated it. Growing up in Cocoa Beach, Florida, he and his dad made annual trips ...

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 ...

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 ...