If you're looking to buy a boat or a yacht, you’ll quickly discover that many key considerations go into finding the just-right vessel—is the boat for cruising, sailing, exploring? Or perhaps a speed ...

There is more to a boat’s transom than just wood, fiberglass, paint and teak: Those letters stretched across the stern tell their own stories. However, sometimes the anecdotes, quips and nods to loved ...

Humans have been traveling by boat ever since our ancestors began using tools to carve canoe-like vessels at least 10,000 years ago. It’s in our nature to name things that we value, so at some point ...

The practice of naming boats has fallen out of favor with inshore anglers in South Louisiana, but it's still popular among the offshore crowd. In the 1960s and '70s, nearly every boat that ran the ...