Boats, Engines & Equipment Reviews

Just heard from PWC Offshore's Mark Gerner, who told me some early results from yesterday's Long Beach-2-Catalina And Back PWC Offshore Championships. The summary? It looks like big water, big fog, and heavily modified boats in the Pro class resulted in some big losses for the favored pros. …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

Some Australian news outlets reported yesterday that Plastiki, the unique 60-foot plastic catamaran constructed of 12,500 plastic bottles, had "come to grief" some 200 miles off the east coast of Oz and was in the midst of being rescued. The crew of ... …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

Graceful entries into and exits out of kayaks and canoes are possible – but they take skill to master.  Getting into a small vessel like that from a dock is especially challenging and more than one paddler has gone for a swim rather than landing in... …Read More

Former offshore racing notable Dave Scott can be one of the most gracious, engaging people you’ll ever meet. Back when he was racing in the various Anheuser-Busch-backed catamarans including Bud Light and Bacardi Silver with John Tomlinson, he and hi... …Read More

If the Art Deco-inspired interior doesn’t get your attention, maybe the Key West meeting room will. Those are among the highlights of the 68-meter (223-foot) Lady Christine, which Feadship’s Royal Van Lent recently delivered. From the split-lev... …Read More

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

  Marine biologists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have announced the discovery of a bizarre and extremely dangerous species of man-eating shark. Designated formally as Lamniforma Octopoda, the sharktopus, as it is referred to colloqui... …Read More