Power & Motoryacht

A red-carpet tour of the Riva factory in Sarnico culminates with a first glance at the 58 Capri.

Believe it or not, even when you have the best job in the world like I do, it’s easy to become inured. There are only so many cocktail parties in the South of France one can attend before they start getting boring. Only so ...

Against a sea of new boats at the Connecticut Spring Boat Show Editor-in-Chief Dan Harding came across Arctic Scout, an extremely unique 39-footer built by United Boat Builders in 1965 that was used as a research vessel in the arctic. Completely refit in 2006 this vessel mixes business ...

Julius, Louis, Harry Johnson, and brother-in-law Clarence Conover. Without these four “Brothers Johnson,” the world of today’s marine combustion engine would be very different. And while the Johnson name is still plastered across thousands of vintage outboard cowlings, how those outboards came to be in the first place is one fascinating tale.

Born in the late 1800s,...

Editor’s note: Each fall, scores of anglers chase striped bass along the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic from the surf and boats. In this excerpt from Seasons of the Striper, from Rizzoli New York, author William Sisson describes an obsessive striper angler’s indoctri...

“We gave a valiant effort,” Jeff Donahue, MJM Yachts’ Vice President of Sales, told me after I’d spent a few hours perched on the ample bow of the builder’s surprisingly fishable new 38RS, or “Retreat Sportfish Series,” as they’re billing this family-friendly sportfish-cruiser crossover.

My first sight of the 38RS was at its debut, at the 2025 Newport Boat Show. Imm...