
Vote for America’s “Best Harbor”
Join millions around the country to vote in an annual contest to find the “Best Harbor” in the United States.

Join millions around the country to vote in an annual contest to find the “Best Harbor” in the United States.

There are docking skills and then there are “docking” skills. As they say here on the Chesapeake: “It’s an Eastern Shore thing; you wouldn’t understand.”

The voting is over and Heartbeat, 5 to 1, and Dessert First all come out winners

We are still collecting entries for our Best Boat Name Competition

Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Cooper challenges readers to submit the best boat name for a chance to win an Em-Trak Sailor Extreme AIS Package.

West Marine said it is giving America’s love of selfies a patriotic twist with its first “Red, White, Blue & a Selfie Too” social media

Organizers of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show have announced a call for entries to design and produce the show’s main entrance, located at the Bahia Mar Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel.

Ever dreamed of having a wedding in the Bahamas? If you are an engaged couple looking marry in 2016 we’ve got your chance to have the wedding of a lifetime and we’ll get the tab!

The goal of the competition is to rethink a 100-year-old design, seek out the newest technologies and design innovations and develop interest in newer, more versatile life jackets.

On the line at the BoatUS Foundation’s Boating Safety and Clean Water is a first place prize of $10,000 for the best new design submitted for the 2015 Innovations in Life Jacket Design Competition.

We follow the path of explorers who ran the Northwest Passage over a century ago, but our journey is a lot more fun

We can spend years planning for a bucket-list trip and then life gets in the way. Go now.

Splashing later this year.

Karly and Evan Nietzel—aka YouTube’s @Navigating Nietzels—tailored their careers for remote work after buying a trawler, moving onboard and completing the Great Loop. Along with their pup, Ripley, they’re just getting started.

This aluminum vessel’s throwback design belies its modern systems, all installed for a Great Loop cruise.

The three-stateroom, semidisplacement model has a range of power options and a low air draft.

A solar-power system on our classic trawler lets us spend time moored or anchored with more than enough juice to meet our energy needs.

America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association has been helping boaters complete the ultimate voyage for a quarter century.

The steel-hull Nightfall, designed by William Garden, connects generations of this family through a love of cruising.

Larry Graf, the founder, designer and lead engineer of Aspen Power Catamarans, talks about Aspen’s proa hull designs and adventure cruising on his own creations from the Arctic to the Sea of Cortez.