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Boat Features

Cruise in Style Aboard Back Cove’s 412

Back Cove’s New 412 Flagship Is Ready for Cruising

Ready! Aim! Fire Boat!

A Lyman-Morse-built fireboat, its call sign Clinton Marine 9-2, is now on station patrolling Long Island Sound.

Hinckley Picnic Boat 39: Master of the Swoop

Hinckley Yachts debuts another classic, the Picnic Boat 39

Solar Sailing in a Refit Powerboat

A Hylan & Brown refit will cruise at the speed of the sun

The Sailboat Race As Obstacle Course

The Mill River Race is one of a handful of non-traditional courses sailed in the Fox Islands

Second Time Around

His boat dismasted and forced to drop out of a round-the-world race, solo skipper Ronnie Simpson is back, ready to sail, and vowing to win this time around.

Historic Class of Racing Dinghies

North Haven summer residents have brought new life to a venerable class of sailing dinghies.

A Maine Sea Captain’s Adventures in Paradise

Come winter, a Rockport captain boards a solar- and sail-powered cargo ship that supports a remote Pacific archipelago

Sizing Up Small Boats

A Rockport couple creates 3D imagery to document vessels and assess how boats were built.

A Boatbuilder’s Start, A Friendship Launched

A Maine boatbuilder’s daughter recalls how her father finished off a boat and launched a lifelong friendship between two families.