On the Water

Selene Annapolis Charter has teamed up with the Sea Sense Powerboating School to offer the Selene 47 Holiday for charter and/or instructional charter on the Chesapeake Bay in 2010. Charters are a five-day, four-night on-board comprehensive experience. Sea Sense will provide a structured course covering boat systems, operation, course plotting and navigation, boat handling, docking, and [...] …Read More

April 30 - May 2, 2010 — the South Florida PWC & Sportboat Show. What several in the industry have already dubbed "The Miami Boat Show...For the PWC Industry," the three-day weekend is scheduled to include demo rides from all four major PWC manufacturers — Sea-Doo, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Honda. Also present will be booths with product from Riva Racing Parts & Accessories, Slippery Wet Suits, Wamilton's Customs, Exotic Signs, Continental Trailers, Triton Trailers, Sport Port floating dock systems, Admiral Boat Lift, Progressive Insurance, various financing vendors, the South Florida PWC Club, LTS Wakeboard School, Brownie's PWC Dive System, and the Coast Guard Auxiliary. …Read More

Meet Peter Van Lancker, a jack-of-all-marine-trades. He can build and design boats. He knows how to start up a company and run it on a lean budget. And he is an avid boater — both sail and power. …Read More

Jeff Siegal of ActiveCaptain recently notified users of the fabulous online cruising database that the information from ActiveCaptain will shortly be available inside MaxSea’s Time Zero charting software. The MaxSea folks were demonstrating a beta version of the software and Jeff did a short video of the demo, which is below. An impromptu demonstration at the [...] …Read More

What does it mean to have an Italian Challenger of Record for America’s Cup 34? Let’s start with spirit, enthusiasm, gusto, sport pursued con brio. Vincenzo Onorato’s Mascalzone Latino team was one of four (yes, four) Italian entries in the 2007 Cup, and the game was more fun while the Italians were in it. Expect [...] …Read More

Over the weekend at the Pasadena fishing show, I bumped into a buddy who needed some fishfinder help. Seems that when he pulled his boat this fall, he knocked the transducer out of whack. He might have been upset, except that it needed an adjustment anyway because whenever he broke a plane, the fishfinder screen [...] …Read More

MasterCraft's X-25 took home the National Marine Manufacturers Association Innovation Award in the Runabouts & Fishing Craft to 24' category. One of the reasons it's innovative is that it basically takes some of the best features of other models, and combines them all into one strong and versatile package. From the fantastic wakeboarding and wakesurfing hull of the CSX crossover model, to the cockpit of a V-drive ski boat, MasterCraft has looked to what works, what is popular with their customers, and produced a greatest hits package in a very popular size range. …Read More

All of the pre-race litigation may have shown its value in creating a level playing field yesterday when observers helped the presiding race officer start the final race over the objections of most of his crew, who were representatives of the defending yacht club. …Read More

Friday I mentioned that Standard-Horizon’s Matrix AIS radio won the Innovation Award for Electronics – quite an honor. Now that I have a real internet connection and can post pictures, let’s take a closer look at this unit. The Matrix AIS impressed us for a couple of reasons: the Class A and B receiver shows AIS targets [...] …Read More

I've heard an interesting rumor from several different sources over the course of the past few weeks — and that rumor is that Watercraft World magazine may be making a return. …Read More