Boat Reviews

After watching “You and Your Johnson” from Jeff Hemmel’s post the other day, I was reminded of the Triumph Boat commercials from a few years back. Most boat commercials are pretty terrible, but the Triumph ones stood out, as did a couple of others. The Bubba test drive. Divine Intervention Evinrude 1 Evinrude 2 Nitro [...] …Read More

A collection of far-flung groups, including the American Watercraft Association, PWIA, and BoatU.S., have come together under the banner FollowTheScience.org to oppose the pending increase of ethanol in fuels to 15%. …Read More

A judge has suggested that national parks should once again ban personal watercraft. This after the parks already conducted lengthy environmental impact assessments, and ruled in favor of continued PWC access. …Read More

Had a nice chat with Fred Kiekhaefer, the president of Mercury Racing, over the weekend. Kiekhaefer told me that construction of the first “production” pair of the company’s twin-turbocharged 1,350-hp engines was underway. When I told him I w... …Read More

In two weeks, the 126-foot Emerald Isle, which has had one owner since delivery from Christensen Shipyards in 1992, will be auctioned to the highest bidder in Fort Lauderdale. Emerald Isle is being sold on an “as is, where is, with all faults” b... …Read More

You may have noticed I haven't been in a huge rush to blog about the offshore race in which Team SEMOSA competed the week before last. If you're assuming this was because we did poorly, you wouldn't be far wrong. We ran the race on Phil Cavanaugh's ... …Read More

Shortly after Frans Heesen, founder of Heesen Yachts, and his wife took delivery of My Petra last year, he revealed they were already thinking about a bigger yacht. That yacht is the project referred to as YN 15747 (the build number)—signed, natura... …Read More

Video commercial for 2010 IJSBA World PWC Finals …Read More

Professional photographer Jon Schwartz was biding his time on the press boat during the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament, when something wild happened. The crew of the 36 Hatteras Chiripa, the designated press boat, set out two lines hoping to catch a tuna or mahi while waiting for the tournament boats to hook up. Then a [...] …Read More

Here we go again. It's getting so you can write these "youngest solo circumnavigator" stories just by filling in some blanks on a form. Except in the case of Laura Dekker, age 14, who set out yesterday from Den Osse, Holland, on her 38-foot Jeanneau ... …Read More