Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fashion or function? With boat design it's sometimes hard to tell the difference. Tim Bower It was back in January, as we explored ...

The 42-foot Excess 13 slices through the water with asymmetrical hulls and a responsive, lightweight structure designed for bluewater cruising. Courtesy Excess Boat-show season is back with a boom.

Remember when we used a telephone just to call someone? In those days, if we wanted to listen to music, take photos, plan a road trip, crunch some numbers, look at local restaurant options and do our ...

Lately, we've seen a significant surge in interest and innovation in the realm of yacht design, mainly fueled by the growing demand for sophisticated, cutting-edge vessels, regardless of their size or ...

My first boat was an Owens cabin cruiser, built in the early 1960s, about 30 feet long and powered by a single ­gasoline engine. Back then I thought it was the end all, be all — at least until I tried ...

When then 12-year-old Sarasota native son George Luzier started building boats in the backyard of his Sarasota home, it is unlikely he knew he would become a legend in the world of wooden boat design ...

Most of the electric boats we saw at the Düsseldorf boat show this past weekend were small, slow cruisers designed to putter around waterways with combustion engine bans. One boat stepped well beyond ...