On the Water

Si Tex marine electronics is back in the game after fading into the background for a couple of years, and their newest offering is an autopilot: the SP 36. This is a high-end unit, with advanced features like virtual feedback capability (so there’s no need for a rudder feedback unit on stern drive and outboard [...] …Read More

A little more than a year ago, I introduced you to the 104-foot gulet Getaway, which offers charters in Turkey and Greece. At the time, Getaway was brand-new to the charter industry. She spent last summer performing her first charters and earning a goo... …Read More

Shedding more light on why a city in Italy, or Spain, or Rhode Island, or California, might want to host the next America’s Cup, the office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today released the long-awaiting results of their economic impact report on what America’s Cup 34 could mean to the San Francisco Bay Area. [...] …Read More

Last week Lowrance announced the Elite-5 DSI and some related fishfinder/plotters, and while they're unabashedly aimed at freshwater fishermen, there's at least two things of interest to others.  DSI stands for DownScan Imaging, which seems to m... …Read More

In the July edition of Sea Fare -- Victoria Allman in the Galley, we learn a sweet lesson about life and coconut bread. This is an easy galley favorite. …Read More

BRP's 210 Challenger SE sport boat recently received a prestigious "red dot award" in the product design category from the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen,Germany. This makes the seventh red dot award Sea-Doo has received since 2005. …Read More

The new Lowrance X 4 and the entire X series fishfinder is the cheapest LCD screen fish finder I’ve ever reviewed, with a bottom line of $79.99. Can you really get a fishfinder for under 80 bucks? Evidently, the answer is yes. The X is essentially the guts of an Eagle in a Lowrance’s clothing. Eagle as [...] …Read More

Fraser Yachts Worldwide has announced the launch of a Russian-language website. According to the company, "The site constitutes the first Russian web portal in the world to be developed by a major, international luxury yacht brokerage company." I beli... …Read More

Video offers comprehensive, inside look at the IJSBA personal watercraft world championships in Lake Havasu, Arizona. …Read More

Years ago I gave Simrad grief for developing its own NMEA 2000 cable and connector system, called SimNet, instead of going with the DeviceNet standard as NMEA wanted.  When NMEA 2000 was just getting started, SimNet confused end users and instal... …Read More