
Logbook: Season of Change
Life-changing news rocks Dan Harding’s boating world.


Bob Arrington gives us two choices: Use your boat or get rid of it. Here’s why.

Holy torpedoes, it’s the Batboat! How a mechanical engineer acquired a pop-culture icon—and the father/son plan to restore it.

Bill Prince on what separates the true yacht designers from the “Throw Pillows.”

What’s life like after boating? Bob Arrington contemplates the unknown.

Yamaha teams up with Roush to develop first-ever recreational hydrogen outboards—will they fly?

Are long-work days and digital connectivity keeping us from experiencing hobbies in the physical world?

Meet the first U.S.C.G. approved solar boat and the obsessed professor who built her.

Will Bill Prince talk a potential vintage Chris Craft buyer off the cliff—or is the deal just too good to pass up?

Back in 1932, Garfield Wood helmed a suicidally powerful boat that people took to calling a “madman’s dream.”


Simon Murray takes us behind the rise of the “Tyde” hydrofoil and what’s coming next.

Can a boat become an actual time machine? Bob Arrington makes a compelling case.


Hearing loss is a downside of aging, but Michael Rybovich considers the bright sides to growing older.

Life-changing news rocks Dan Harding’s boating world.

Bob Arrington gives us two choices: Use your boat or get rid of it. Here’s why.

Holy torpedoes, it’s the Batboat! How a mechanical engineer acquired a pop-culture icon—and the father/son plan to restore it.

Bill Prince on what separates the true yacht designers from the “Throw Pillows.”

What’s life like after boating? Bob Arrington contemplates the unknown.

Yamaha teams up with Roush to develop first-ever recreational hydrogen outboards—will they fly?

Are long-work days and digital connectivity keeping us from experiencing hobbies in the physical world?

Meet the first U.S.C.G. approved solar boat and the obsessed professor who built her.

Will Bill Prince talk a potential vintage Chris Craft buyer off the cliff—or is the deal just too good to pass up?

Back in 1932, Garfield Wood helmed a suicidally powerful boat that people took to calling a “madman’s dream.”

Michael Rybovich offers stern advice for the deadbeats.

Simon Murray takes us behind the rise of the “Tyde” hydrofoil and what’s coming next.

Can a boat become an actual time machine? Bob Arrington makes a compelling case.

Feast your eyes on the pioneer of hydroplaning, the “No-Vac”!

Hearing loss is a downside of aging, but Michael Rybovich considers the bright sides to growing older.