NEW VIDEO! The Sea-Doo Switch rewrites the book on pontoon/tri-toon boats, combining safe water-jet propulsion with an innovative modular deck layout and handlebar steering that is truly different. The Switch comes in nominal 16’ and 19’ models, with trailers included, and she rides on composite pontoons rather than aluminum.
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Yacht Controller
Docking in the Palm of Your Hand
TEST VIDEO. Delivering precise wireless control over all your engines, thrusters and more, handheld Yacht Controller devices can make getting your boat or yacht in and out of any slip safe, easy and comfortable in a wide variety of circumstances including docking shorthanded.
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Formula 350 CBR
Lux Bowrider Ready for Weekending
TEST VIDEO. Three 350-hp Mercury V10s pushed the 350 Crossover Bowrider to 60.7 mph in our most recent test. On the outside, she looks like an XL bowrider, but the plush air-conditioned cabin welcomes comfortable weekending. She’s also available in sterndrive configuration and with Formula’s virtually limitless palette of painted finishes.
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Variations on the Bowline Knot
How-To
DO YOU KNOW how to tie a “Quick Release Bowline?” How about a “Double Bowline?” “Bowline on a Bight?” Here’s how, from the experts at Grady-White Boats.
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Lionfish Hunt for Cash
2-Day Derby Kills Invasive Species
THE LIONFISH is an invasive species in the Florida Keys and threatens to depopulate native reef fish. Anything is legal — hook and line, net, gig or spearfishing (no dynamite).
DETAILS OF THE LIONFISH HUNT
Gritty Old Boatyards are a Dying Breed
Fexas Friday
TOM FEXAS SAW IT COMING 35 years ago — the “yuppification of boat yards” with cafes, wine bars and jazz concerts and hordes of yuppies. Like Nostradamus, Fexas saw quite clearly into the future of boating both at sea and on land.
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Life is Better on a Boat
Benjamin helping “Pops” drive the house boat on Lake Hartwell, Georgia.