On a sunny day in ­August 2013, a pontoon enthusiast named Brad Rowland fired up the triple 300 hp Mercury ProMax 300x engines on his 25-foot South Bay tritoon and hammered the throttles. He proceeded ...

The fastest I’ve ever gone in a boat is 116 mph. I stood at the helm of a 42-foot Cigarette next to a veteran speed merchant named Bud Lorow. As he expertly worked the wheel and throttles, I turned to ...

(MENAFN- Robotics & Automation News) For decades, a boat was a simple thing: a hull, an engine, and a captain's judgment. That picture is changing fast. The same wave of automation, electrification, ...

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Dave Powlison’s feet are wedged into the stainless-steel foot brace. He has a light grip on the tiller handle in his right hand. His gaze is forward, over the shoulders of his mainsail trimmer beside ...

A pair of 1,400-hp Sterling engines will give the Outerlimits 47 GTX a top speed of 150 mph, while the company’s new construction method involving an epoxy resin will provide the boat with a ride that ...