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 ...

One of the many fun things about boats is that they have names. This makes them unique among the possessions in our lives. Houses don’t have names, bicycles don’t have names, most cars don’t have ...

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 ...

Think about it: What sort of image are you trying to convey as you cruise past fellow boaters on the water or onlookers at the marina? Are you hoping to project a salty sophistication (think John F.

There’s a saying that the two best days in a boater’s life are when he buys his boat and when he sells it. Talk to most boat owners, though, and you’ll encounter fierce disagreement, and possibly an ...

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 ...

From the gang at Boat/US: ALEXANDRIA, Va.- Boat names can reveal much about the personality, passion, or experiences of a boat owner. This year the BoatU.S. list of the top 10 boat names is ...

When a boat gets a name, it seems to have a new personality and a new mission in life: to live up to its name, whatever that is. Recently, Boat US released the top 10 names, and the number one on the ...