• Amazing sight in the South Pacific
    12/19/2008

    Volcanic stones floating on the waterThe yacht "Maiken" was traveling in the South Pacific when the crew came across a weird sight - it was sand in the water, and the sand was floating on top of the waves!

  • Fun: preparing for hurricanes in 2008
    9/3/2008
    Hurricane preparationsThe 2008 Hurricane season is officially in full swing. Here in South Florida there is nothing more concerning for our personal well being and that of our families, homes & boats.
  • A very high seas adventure
    6/27/2008
    High seas adventureI left City Island, NY, at 2 p.m. on November 4, 1997 aboard "Mistral," my 1981 Beneteau First 35, on my way to the Caribbean via Bermuda. Prior to my departure, I spent over $10,000 outfitting my boat with new instruments, radar, autopilot, GPS, wind generator, water maker, windlass, new bimini and dodger, as well as a rigid boom vang.
  • Shipwrecks
    6/27/2008
    ShipwrecksThe Eco-Nova group arrive at the homeport (Highland Beach, Florida), of the "ELLA WARLEY III". The crew spent the day provisioning the vessel for the long trip.
  • Fire at sea
    6/27/2008
    Fire at seaThe wind was just abaft the beam and the 60-foot schooner, Paradigm, flew southward under sail with a bone in her teeth. Before this particular night (for I have changed my ways since), I had not been in the habit of monitoring VHF channel 16 while offshore.
  • New Zealand Millenium Cup 2003
    6/27/2008
    More than 60 superyachts, sailing vessels and motor yachts, from all over the globe are registered in what has been described as the "most fun sailing event anywhere." The inaugural event was staged in Auckland just prior to the 2000 America's Cup as a token of appreciation to super yachts for visiting New Zealand.
  • Belize and bull shark encounter
    6/27/2008
    Belize and bull shark encounterWe were on the third day of an eight day trip to Belize is search of whale sharks. The first two days placed us in the right vicinity of them, but no sightings. This morning, the wind was blowing in at about 15-20 knots creating 3-5 foot seas all the way out to the barrier reef almost 20 miles offshore.
  • Tornado
    6/27/2008
    Tornado in South FloridaFor the fourth time in an hour I was drawn outside to watch the sky. Remarkable lightning displays are not so uncommon in South Florida in the summer, but this evening my ancestral namesake, Thor, was really outdoing himself. Stroboscopic flashes burst like artillery fire among the clouds, and chaotic sheet lightning slashed across the low, roiled cloudscape with sudden violence.
  • Homeward bound
    6/27/2008
    Above me the masthead tri-color sways in rhythm to the seas, scribing an arc from Orion's Belt halfway to Pleiades. The Canary Islands aren't yet a hundred miles astern. Three thousand nautical miles ahead, across the Atlantic Ocean, lie the West Indies, and Sparrow seems to know it. Wing & wing, she spreads her sails in silhouette against the night sky and, like her namesake, she flies!
  • Saggita
    6/27/2008
    SaggitaMy mother's father, Arnt Berthelsen, was a Norwegian seaman in the early part of this century. Born the son of a Mandal boat builder in 1900, he shipped out of Oslo as a cabin boy at the age of fourteen aboard one of the last working tall ships. For the next decade or more, he ranged far and wide aboard a variety of ocean-going vessels, eventually becoming a captain.
  • Boating partnerships
    6/27/2008
    Boat partnerships that work make owning and maintaining a boat cost a lot less money, as well as saving time and hassle.
  • Exploring Galapagos
    6/27/2008
    Our instructions were clear: Get to the bottom as quickly as possible, find a suitable spot to minimize the current and our movement, then let the ocean come to you. The action in Galapagos doesn’t wait for stragglers to get situated. "You should constantly be looking above and around you towards the open water."
  • A boat gone with the wind
    6/27/2008
    Windmill catamaranInnovative technologies bring sailing to a new level. Have you ever thought of sailing a "windmill catamaran"?
  • Yapluka spearheads European semi-custom catamaran design
    6/27/2008
    Yapluka designersA recent visit by Zsolt Esztergomy, our Mega catamaran project director, to the European Yapluka construction facility confirmed reports that this semi-custom builder is pushing the engineering envelope to new levels in aluminum mega catamaran design.
  • Gold aviation
    6/27/2008
    Gold aviationMore and more people are realizing that chartering a yacht or aircraft dramatically increases pleasure time and productivity time! The following is just one story of how chartering a yacht and aircraft can dramatically assist your travel plans as it did for the Harris Family.
  • The australian story
    6/27/2008
    AustraliaAustralia is famous for being ‘far away’! But yachts were built to travel and yachts were meant for adventure. What Australia should be famous for is the myriad of amazing cruising experiences for those yacht owners looking to broaden their horizons and who dare to venture away from the traditional. Would you dare to go the distance?
  • Miami International Boat Show 2007
    6/27/2008
    Miami International Boat ShowMiami International Boat Show is a place to see ar buy used and new boats, cruisers, sailboats, runabouts and trawlers for sale. Read the story to learn more about MIBS-2007.
  • Green boats: dream or reality?
    6/27/2008
    Environmental protection concerns or at least should concern everyone as we all live on the same planet, breath the same air and therefore should do our best to preserve the environment. Air and water pollution, global warming, greenhouse effect – all these sound but very familiar. And it’s high time people did something to at least minimize the aftereffects of environmental catastrophe if not solve the ecological problems completely. Those working in the marine industry are also reaching for the stars – and as a result we have some interesting ‘green boats’ and environment friendly technologies to show.
  • Sydney International Boat Show 2007
    6/27/2008
    Sydner International Boat ShowThe doors are open August 2nd through the 7th for the 40th annual Sydney International Boat Show. The Boat Show, which started in 1968, has since become very popular amongst boating and yachting enthusiasts not only in Australia, but worldwide. The boat show occupies six halls of Darling Harbour Exhibition Centre, which is situated not far away from city’s central business district.
  • To cross the Pacific on a row boat – why not?
    6/27/2008
    Raplh TuijnSince records began, more than 200 people have crossed an ocean rowing a boat and only nine have managed to cross the Pacific ocean in this way. But no one has ever done it without a back-up team. The Dutchman Ralph Tuijn will be the first ever person one to row over 7 000 miles non-stop from the Peruvian port of Callao to the Australian city of Brisbane. Let's wish him luck. Ralph's quest started on March, 14th so read the story if you want to learn more about him and his enterprise.
  • Dubai International Boat Show 2007
    6/27/2008
    Dubai International Boat ShowLearn more about the recent Dubai International Boat Show, the largest boating event in the middle east which presents displays of boats, marine supplies, equipment and services. This year’s show also featured the first ever Dive Middle East Exhibition displaying merchandise and products of the leading manufacturers of diving equipment and supplies. There were 330 boats on display, 142 of them on-water.
  • Bigger boats - bigger marinas?
    6/27/2008
    Cruise linerThe yachts get bigger and bigger and the marinas simply run out of ‘parking space’. But still mega yachts are extermely popular especially among billionaires. So what can we do to accommodate behemoth boats?
  • Boating back to the vintage past
    6/27/2008
    Boating back to the vintage pastHalcyon, a luxurious, classic 95’ Bermudan ketch built in 1929 and worth almost $2 million is about to get back to life. She will take her first passengers on a VIP cruise starting at Milford Haven, Wales. Throughout the decades of her life Halcyon has been a private yacht, a flagship of the Greek minesweeper flotilla during the World War II and a training vessel in the British Merchant Cadet Training School. The ‘Grand Lady of the Seas’ fully deserves her name: she is charming, aristocratically noble and majestic.
  • Pack your boat and head for the Bahamas!
    6/27/2008
    Read about boating, sailing and snorkeling at the Bahamas, the world's boating Mecca!
  • Boating around the world: a 1000-day sailing trip
    6/27/2008
    Boating around the worldOn April 21st 2007 Reid Stowe, 55, and his girlfriend Soanya Ahmad, 23, set out from the Shipyard Marina in North Hoboken Harbor for a 1000 days’n’nights’ non-stop round-the-world voyage. On their 70-foot yacht, the Schooner Anne, they will make the longest ever circumnavigation, longer than Australian Jon Sanders's who circumnavigated the globe in a trip of 657 days.
  • Catamaran aka 'tie log'
    6/27/2008
    CatamaranA catamaran is originally a boat consisting of two hulls joined by a frame or a single hull with two parallel keels, sail- or engine-powered. The catamaran was invented in Indonesia in the 5th century and is quite a recent addition to the recreational fleet - in 1870s an American Nathaniel Herreshoff began to build catamarans to his own design.
  • Sport fishing
    6/27/2008
    Sport fishingSport fishing, a hobby that has spanned over generations. What makes the over $40 billion sport fishing industry so popular, and could it possibly be losing some of its popularity?
  • Emma Maersk
    6/27/2008
    It’s the Titanic of the Cargo Ships! At 1,302 feet long it is the largest container ship ever built. The gigantic ship, which would awe anyone, was given the name Emma Maersk by the daughter of the late Arnold Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller and his wife Emma. After 65 happy years the Maersk’s spent together, there is no question that this ship is the largest monument of love ever created.
  • Sea Ray Vs. Carver
    6/26/2008
    Sea Ray Vs. CarverOne chooses a yacht according to his own preferences and the yacht’s technical features. And that is why we decided to compare two motor yachts of similar class and hull configuration, give their brief descriptions and thus maybe help you choose a yacht.
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