Boat owners can monitor, track and control their vessel from afar with help from satellite communications and a phone app.

Boats need nonslip surfaces. Decks get wet, people walk on them, and without the proper surface underfoot, somebody can end up taking a potentially dangerous header. Products have come and gone over ...

Get your boat shipshape with our top pre-season maintenance tasks, gear recommendations, and savings up to 20%.

Tubing, skiing and wakeboarding all have different requirements. Here are three common types of watersports tow points for ...

Only a Sober Skipper should operate a boat! This fact is being emphasized by professional wakeboarder, Thomas Herman, in honor of Safe Boating Week.

The hardest part of becoming a boater is taking that first step. To be a real boater, you have to actually buy a boat, a prospect that can seem daunting. With so many choices and styles, it’s hard to ...

As recently as this past winter, solid-state batteries were touted as future tech poised to move electric propulsion rapidly forward. Jumping ahead a year, Honda ­announced limited production of these ...

Editor’s Note: Here’s a treat for you. One of two boat tests of the same Scout Boats 261 XSS, each performed and written by a different Boating editor. This one is by John Tiger. The other is by ...

The newly redesigned Mako 18 Pro Skiff Backwater ­Edition is a light-tackle ­angler’s dream. It’s a skinny-water boat that’s packed with standard features that will help you find and chase fish.

Full disclosure: Boats and adult beverages are two of my favorite things, and I’ve realized that there are many similarities (besides being addictive). Some boats are beer (a good one like Heineken or ...

Given the widespread popularity of taking one’s boat to The Sandbar, or The Cove, or The Island (I’m using proper nouns because in every boating locality these places are referred to as specific ...

The 2025 Boating Boat Buyers Guide (BBG) is a compilation of over 75+ boat model in-depth reviews from our team of editors: From runabout boats to watersports boats, to pontoon boats and fishing boats ...