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As the Covid-19 pandemic drags on, leaving boaters looking for more ways to get out onto the water safely with family and friends, charter companies are reporting a surge in bookings for multiboat charters in warm, sunny destinations. The Moorings is

Kadey-Krogen Yachts and sister company Summit Motoryachts in September announced plans to expand their model ranges by one and two models, respectively. The new designs include the Kadey-Krogen 60 Open and the Summit Motoryachts 54 Coupe and 62 Motor

SURF’S UP Few people outside the surfing world have heard of Nazaré, a Portuguese village on the North Atlantic. The town is not particularly unique, though it has a certain bucolic charm. What is remarkable about Nazaré are the monster waves that pi

A cold snap brings strong northeast winds that whip the western boundary of the Gulf Stream into a rolling countercurrent. Small-craft warnings are raised, and locals used to warm-weather pampering scurry to find appropriate clothing. This is the tim

So many boaters—new and experienced alike—are signing up for instructional charters right now that Offshore Sailing School, the official sailing school of The Moorings, is running out of instructors to teach them all. “We have more boats than we have

LOA: 49’8” Beam: 15’2” Draft: 4’3” Displ.: 48,000 lbs. Fuel: 565 gals. Water: 135 gals. Power: (2) 600-hp Volvo Penta diesels with IPS800 pod drives If you spend enough time poking around new boats, it’s easy enough to find at least a few areas where

LOA: 24’0” Beam: 8’0” Draft: 2’6” Displ.: 4,400 lbs. Fuel: 42 gals. Power: (1) 150-hp Yanmar turbo diesel Price: $295,000 When Carter Richardson founded East Passage Boatwrights in Bristol, Rhode Island, in 2006, his vision was to create a place wher

The MJM origin story is well documented and oft told. As he grew older, famed sailboat builder Bob Johnstone was looking to trade in his sails and winches for a powerboat that he and his wife, Mary, could cruise aboard comfortably. Not seeing exactly

X SHORE EELEX 8000 LOA: 26’2” WOT: 30-plus knots Power: (1) 225-kW Brusa inboard electric motor Range: 100 nm at 5 to 7 knots CANDELA C-7 LOA: 25’3” Power: (1) 55-kW Torqeedo Deep Blue electric motor WOT: 30 knots Range: 50 nm at 22 knots In 2020, al

To hell with Covid, they did it anyway. Erik Brown, 30, and his wife, Alyce Flanagan, 30, decided to pool their sailing competence and boatbuilding skills to open Left Coast Charters at Boat Haven in Port Townsend, Washington. Blending personal prefe

LOA: 37’4” Beam: 11’4” Draft (engines up): 2’5” Displ. (w/engines): 16,600 lbs. Fuel Capacity: 343 gals. Power: (2) Yamaha 425 XTOs Price (w/power): $528,760 FORT PIERCE, FLORIDA, is center console country. It is home to an easily navigable inlet tha

Downeast boats carry a flavor that lasts long after the salt has been washed off. The Eastern 27 Lobster Fisherman is a prime example of that idea. The original hull, developed around 1968, was conceived by Downeast boatbuilder Royal Lowell of Maine.

Long before Sir Richard Branson blasted himself 53 miles upward to spend about 15 minutes in space aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, he broke another barrier, whipping across the Atlantic Ocean in a record-breaking time of three days, eight hour

LOA: 70’10” Beam: 18’8” Draft: 5’0” Displ.: 102,698 lbs. Power: (2) 800-hp MAN diesels Fuel: 1,700 gals. Water: 400 gals. Ian and Kim Treibick both grew up enjoying Long Island Sound in power and sailboats of all sizes. And they’ve raised their child

Out in the middle of the Gulf Stream, with no land in sight for more than 300 miles, the 38-foot yawl Tamerlane battles tumultuous seas as she prepares for the impending storm. At her helm is Thomas Fleming Day, the editor of Rudder Magazine, who had

Sailing outbound from my mooring field on a sailboat without an engine requires passage through a short bottleneck channel with a sandbar to port. Recently, as I sized up the narrow part of the channel, I observed a motorboat inbound, farther out. It