A fishing vessel crew who responded to a distress call says passengers were “pretty frightened” after a Black Cat cruise boat began taking on water off Akaroa. Paul Wright said he and two crew members were returning from clearing a pot when they heard a “pan, pan, pan” call over the radio.

Bay City Boat Lines, operator of the Princess Wenonah and Islander, was sold to local entrepreneur Jordan Dice.

Advocates see Senate action on a measure to slash S.C. boat taxes nearly in half and end taxation of outboard motors as likely this session.

The families of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a boat strike sued the U.S. government, arguing the "premeditated and intentional killings lack any plausible legal justification."

The Rochester Riverside Convention Center will be full of hundreds of boats starting Thursday. The Greater Rochester Boat Show returns.

The case tests the Trump administration’s argument that its extrajudicial killings of people suspected of smuggling drugs at sea have been lawful.

A 10-passenger ice boat, driven by an airplane propeller, made its trial run on the St. Louis Bay. The craft, which is capable of traveling 80 miles per hour, was designed by A.J. Hase, president of Arrowhead Airways Inc., and has no exact counterpart in the U.S.

The boat caught fire during the ice storm that shut down the Charlotte region over the weekend, according to Cornelius-Lemley Fire Rescue.