Most fishing boats are financed in one of three ways: financing arranged through a boat dealer and/or manufacturer; a home-equity loan or line of credit arranged through a bank or credit union; or a ...

It was a rough ­wintertime crossing of the Gulf Stream as we powered to the fabled fishing grounds of the Bahamas aboard a pair of Sōlace 41-foot center-­consoles. The 41 CS was powered by four ...

While many marine electronics units are becoming more compact these days, marine multifunction displays are headed in the opposite direction. Like today’s television flat screens, touchscreen displays ...

Pursuit Boats makes, to exacting yacht standards, high-quality, luxury offshore fishing boats in dual-console, offshore, and sport center-­console formats—all proven and popular layouts—in lengths ...

Sea Sport, now back in the hands of the family who formed it in 1955, has been steadily expanding its line of hardy, Pacific Northwest-built fiberglass boats. In 1955, Wright Manufacturing opened in ...

Tiara Yachts recently introduced a fishing module and other equipment options to lend its outboard-powered Luxury Sport and Luxury Express series boats a higher level of sport-fishing functionality.

At its plant in Greenville, North Carolina, Grady-White produces 28 models, from 18 to 45 feet, in Coastal Explorer, center console, dual console, walkaround cabin, and express cabin boat ­designs.

Each Aquila Power Catamaran, from 28 to 70 feet, is designed top to bottom as a pure power catamaran, and not, as the company says, a de-masted sailing catamaran. The faster you go with this power cat ...

Phenom Yachts president and CEO Tommy Hancock and his team set out to design the most family-friendly, hardcore fishing and high performing semicustom center-console boat on the market. “At the core ...

Robalo boats are built in what the company calls the world’s largest single-site boat-manufacturing plant: 1.25 million square feet in ­Nashville, Georgia, where it employs many second- and ...

Advancements in glass molding and adhesive technology, coupled with the ingenious and dedicated work from marine designers, has sparked a transformation in boat windshields and windows, particularly ...

This past summer, my cousin spent 13 hours at anchor in the water off Panama City, Florida, in a center-console with no T-top. When a part-time guide’s single outboard gave out during a half-day red ...