For my nine-year-old, choosing a vocation is all about the gear. Now it's an astronaut, now a cowboy, now a fireman -- whatever equipment strikes him as cool that day. Last week while we were at Point ...

From small dinghies to bowriders, the recreational boating world is filled with all types and sizes of watercraft. The hulls of these boats are made up of an internal network of frames that extend ...

Aluminum boats are among the most common in the recreational boating world, but even the smallest aluminum dinghies can be a pain to clean. In this article, we’ll explain how to clean aluminum boats ...

While owners have long recognized the link between clean hulls and lower fuel costs, lack of reliable data has slowed investments in optimizing hull performance. But with improved sensor technologies ...

Forget the initial price tag — keeping and maintaining a boat are the real costs of ownership. But then, if you're reading this, there's nothing we can do to dissuade you. It's probably already too ...

Boat owners who would like to be able to examine their boats hull whilst it is still in the water, may be interested in a new underwater drone which has been created by Fabio Terzaghi called the ...

Scientists around the country, including some in San Diego, are working with the U.S. Navy to tackle an age-old problem known as biofouling. It's the accumulation of marine organisms on the bottom of ...

You might not think that keeping a boat hull smooth in the water has anything in common with keeping a scalpel clean for surgery, but there it does: in both cases you’re trying to prevent nature — ...

For the first time, officials at the U.S. Maritime Administration are strongly considering using dry docks instead of the controversial underwater hull cleaning of ships in the Suisun Bay Reserve ...

Over 1,000 ships enter Hawaii’s ports and harbors every year. Coming from throughout the Pacific and Oceania, bringing cargo and vacationers to the islands. Below deck, they risk carrying stowaways — ...