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Archiving Your Engine. Keeping track of your powerplants on paper can be simple and easy and may prevent big problems later on.

Boating, like flying, is all fun and games until you have to land. Cutting the lines and going for a cruise can be carefree, but those last few moments can make up for all the unwinding you just did. Here is some advice about avoiding the age-old crash landing.

Few things are scarier and deadlier than a fire on a boat. Think that red tank in your Engine Room will protect you from fire? There is a chance it won’t. Surviving a boat fire is all about prevention, here is how to exit the smoke.

Two years ago, Superstorm Sandy made landfall south of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The combination of sustained 70 knots winds and storm surge exceeding 10 feet over a wide area was a catastrophe for the region’s marine community. Although New Jersey and New York bore the brunt of Sandy’s fury, storm-force winds and towering waves associated with the superstorm also had a significant impact upon boaters in the Great Lakes.

John Steinbeck once wrote about Baja, “The sky sucks up the land and disgorges it. A dream hangs over the whole region, a brooking kind of hallucination.” He was right, and the otherworldly terrain and thriving ecosystem of this peninsula can help to rekindle a cruising passion.

It is a debate that will probably never die: Single or twin engines. Join Peter and Sharon, two landlocked Canadians who took the plunge into the bareboating lifestlye as they visit their favorite cruising ground, Florida’s Cayo Costa, aboard their first, twin-screw Trawler.

Wind is the lifeblood of sailors; a breed of boater that relies on it as a driving force and is equally vulnerable to both too much and too little wind. Though not the case with power-cruisers, wind can have a huge effect on the comfort, direction and timing of your journey all the same. Here is how to better understand that which we cannot see…