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 ...

Humans have been designing waterborne vessels since a hungry caveman found a deep river between himself and a tasty-looking baby brontosaurus. As time progressed, man used boats and ships of all sorts ...

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 ...