PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WEST MICHIGAN TOURIST ASSOCIATION The West Michigan Tourist Association has announced the release of its 2023 Lake Michigan Lighthouse Map & Circle Tour, a free resource that details the over 100 lighthouses that dot the shores of Lake Michigan as well as the Circle Tour driving route around the lake. The […]
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Using heavy tackle and with good boat-handling tactics, anglers can raise goliaths and bring them boatside, where photos of such behemoths are popular on social media. Doug Olander Is It Legal to Catch Goliath Grouper Around Florida That’s something of a loaded question, since catching goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) is legal. As long as you […]
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Les Voiles de St Barth-Richard Mille concluded yesterday with a regatta of straight bullets for Roy Pat Disney’s modified VO70 Pyewacket 70 on her first visit to the Caribbean. Following this and her line honours and overall IRC victory in February’s RORC Caribbean 600, Pyewacket 70 has won the second edition of the International Maxi […]
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While many parts of the country are still suffering from their post-winter hangovers, the sailing is mighty fine in the Sunshine State in April. Take, for example, the annual Miami Key Largo Regatta, which is being organized by the Miami Yacht Club’s Youth Sailing Foundation, and which will take place between April 22-23, 2023. Saturday […]
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IT’S DARK AND FOGGY. I can’t see a thing and we’re haulin’ ass blind toward … who knows where? The sun has yet to rise, but there is some light. Instead of pitch black, the horizon is a dark gray. After a few minutes, the very faint silhouette of what looks like a levy appears […]
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The Super Stock-class pairing of DoubleEdge Motorsports team owner/throttleman and driver Greg DiRenzo had its highs—and one low—from 2017 through 2019. Though Beckley wasn’t throttling his 30-foot Skater Powerboats catamaran, DiRenzo and replacement throttleman John Robinson rolled the cat during the 2018 Super Boat International World Championships in Key West, Fla. A year later, Beckley […]
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No boat type has changed more in the last 30 years than the aptly named bowrider. Drew Maglio picks out 5 of the best bowriders ranging in price from $67,000 to $800,000… Originally used as a term to denote a particular style of small, runabout boat with seating in the bow and a wraparound windshield […]
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Photo by Spencer Reagan/Shutterstock The joys of boating and summer fun are waiting at Waukegan and Winthrop Harbor. By Gregory Harutunian Point your compass to northeastern Illinois, just below the Wisconsin state border along the Lake Michigan shores. The ports of Waukegan and Winthrop Harbor boast histories extending back to the days of fur traders, […]
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Our resident used boat expert Nick Burnham picks out four of the best aft cabin boats from the likes of Fairline, Broom and Hardy… Offering as much cabin space as possible within a given length has become the most obvious way to a boat buyer’s wallet. It’s why side decks that used to be waist […]
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Buying a bigger boat isn’t always as easy as it first appears but the rewards are worth it in the end. Matt Dale reveals the truth about upsizing… The Dales’ Yamarin 59HT is dwarfed by their new Aquador 32. All photos: Matt Dale How hard can it be? You want a bigger boat. You search […]
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From the day we came up with our In The Lead documentary-style video series concept, MTI founder Randy Scism was on our short list of subjects. But it took until our second season in 2022—with support from primary backer Mercury Racing as well as MYCO Trailers, CP Performance, Hamilton Marine Finance, Hardin Marine, Bluave Marine […]
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Some of you may not know that Northeast Florida has some of the most fertile wahoo grounds in this great nation. But I’ll go one better — except for San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, I’d say this area has some of the most productive wahoo fishing in the world. I know some of you […]
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The first-ever cancellation of Alaska’s Bering Sea snow crab harvest due to population declines was a shock to the state’s fishing industry last fall, but in the decades to come, the ocean conditions that triggered the snow crab crash and harvest closure are expected to become common. This is according to according to several scientists […]
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Our resident used boat expert Nick Burnham picks out four of the best boats for beginners from the likes of Fletcher, Regal, Axopar and Marex… This morning was spent watching an old video of Smuggler’s Blues 2 (my boat) while finding reasons not to get on with my proper work. I’d filmed it over a […]
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Flo, formerly Pierre 1er, is the iconic 60ft trimaran which Florence Arthaud sailed to win the 1990 Route du Rhum, now returned to its golden glory and racing again There are many iconic raceboats, but few capture the feeling of an era as much as the 60ft trimaran in which Florence Arthaud won the 1990 […]
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When 22-year-old Nick Imprescia, the son of legendary offshore racing throttleman Joey Imprescia whose career spanned the 1980s and 1990s, started competing in the sport he often heard he “had big shoes to fill.” Though Imprescia, who earned this first Mod V-class world title last November in the Race World Offshore Championships in Key West, […]
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In 2004, Powerboat magazine assigned me a profile story of an up-and-coming boat builder. His name was Randy Scism, his Missouri-based company was called Marine Technology, Inc., and it offered one boat, a 42-foot catamaran with sexy hips. A lifelong lover of speed on the water, Scism learned his craft as the general manager and […]
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Large yachts move through this historic town to one of nine powerboat display halls (Plus accessories, sailing, diving and more). Courtesy boot Dusseldorf Finally, boot is back – the relief is clearly noticeable in the water sports community and among the Düsseldorf trade fair organisers. What was the annual highlight for the industry until 2020 […]
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German start-up Mayla Yachts is close to launching the first of its outrageous all-electric performance boats, called the Mayla FortyFour… Styling is a bold mix of retro design cues and futuristic detailing Based on a Petestep deep-vee hull platform, this ultralight carbon fibre electric boat promises top speeds of over 70 knots. Twin 800kW dual-core […]
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Although Kathy Latham was as spirited as ever while working at her hometown event—the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show—at the end October, the remarkable woman behind Latham Marine was in the midst of an intense three-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell in the bone marrow […]
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