On the Water

Mercury ECO-Screen wins West Marine's new award as Environmental Product of the Year …Read More

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Kadey-Krogen yesterday released more details of its newest trawler, the Krogen 52′, which we first reported on here. It’s decidedly a classic Krogen trawler, with its raised pilothouse and 3,000 nm range at about 7 knots. It shares many of the features of its bigger sister, the Krogen 58′.  The main-deck galley is “Iron Chef”-equipped (my [...] …Read More

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You want the ideal fishboat? Then I say you’ll need at least one rodholder per LOA. But cramming all of those holders onto a boat isn’t always easy, especially if you have other non-fishing items (shame on you!) that you want to mount along the gunwales. There are a few mounting systems out there that let [...] …Read More

Bora in the air. Photo by Amory Ross So Bora Gulari answers his mobile and he doesn’t mind that I called, but he says, “Can I call you back in five? I’ve got this bondo that’s ready to kick.” The man is the ace in the hottest development class going. What do you expect? On Friday [...] …Read More

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More than 500 boats at Birmingham Boat and Caravan Show are featured in Boats.com's innovative new display. …Read More

Jeffrey Siegel said this week that the ActiveCaptain “X” beta website, under development for the past year, is now fully launched and live, providing everything from a new user interface to NOAA charts and Microsoft Virtual Earth cartography.  The website benefits greatly from having been available in beta form for the last several months and [...] …Read More

Sea-Doo has high hopes its new RXT-X 260 (read my review here) will begin to challenge Kawasaki for endurance-race supremacy, and as such the company is offering a little more incentive for racers to compete aboard the company's products. Yesterday BRP announced that the company has once again expanded its grassroots "Sea-Doo X-Team Bounty" racer contingency program for 2010, which will now offer support for top finishers in offshore and endurance events. BRP also announced the addition of Novice class championship payouts to the existing Expert and Pro closed-course program. …Read More