Power & Motoryacht

The Connecticut Spring Boat Show is special to me for a few reasons. Located at my homeport of Essex Island, it acts as a reunion of sorts for friends and acquaintances within the industry. It also signals the unofficial start of the boating season. Perhaps because the show was on my home turf, it was that much more noticeable that there was a new face in a familiar place. Im...

Eddie Smith made waves across the boating world with his decision to place Grady-White Boats into a Purpose Trust rather than sell it for hundreds of millions of dollars. Senior Editor Chris Dixon sits down with the longtime steward of the brand to learn more about his journey from the son of an orphan to the top of the boatbuilding mountain.

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Each of the last few years, the Palm Beach International Boat Show has gained momentum and prominence. This year that momentum continued with several new product announcements. The CayCube from Cay Electronics made its Florida debut after an appearance at the Newport show and caught my eye. This self-contained AC and DC power system offers numerous integration options and hel...

When I was a kid, before the malls were built from one end of the country to the other, all the retail stores were downtown. Every thriving municipality had a downtown. Growing up on Hypoluxo Island, the closest downtown was in the city of Lake Worth, around three miles north of our house. We could ride our bikes there on weekends, as long as our chores were done and we were ...

Here are three guys aboard a typical sportfishing boat of the late 1940s/early 1950s. Despite the Marlin II’s hailing port of Freeport, NY, that’s Fort Lauderdale on the horizon, at the start of the city’s postwar growth as a sportfishing and yachting mecca. The Gulf Stream runs parallel to the shore here, and so do the fish that live in its warm, fecund waters. Angl...