On the Water: News & Events

Hatteras Yachts has a new GT series,  with a GT54, GT60, and GT63 Convertible. Sweet – boat builders are back to building new boats! The GT 60 has already hit the water, but for 2011 it’s redesigned (and being reintroduced at the Ft. Lauderdale boat show in October), and joined by the GT 54 and GT 63 (to [...] …Read More

The 18-foot skiff class is doing nicely in 2010, and they have sent their largest delegation ever to race an International Regatta on San Francisco Bay. Considering that most of them come all the way from Sydney, Australia, a showing of 13 boats looks good. Naturally, they came here for the big breeze, and naturally, [...] …Read More

Garmin is recalling 1.25 million Nuvi GPS units, because the batteries can overheat and cause a fire hazard - ouch! About 796,000 of the affected units were sold in the US, but so far, there have been fewer then a dozen cases of actual melt-downs. It’s a bum rap for Garmin, however, which notes that the battery supplier [...] …Read More

Yamaha to unveil 2011 WaveRunner line at noon PST on Thursday, August 27 on the company website www.yamaha-motor.com. …Read More

There’s a new Viking 42 Convertible with Zeus pod drives on the way, and this sportfishing boat will be ready in time for the fall boat shows. The new 42 will be the smallest boat built by this company currently available, and will feature a real departure from the norm for Viking Yachts with the Cummins diesel, Zeus [...] …Read More

Win a trip for two to Lake Havasu, Arizona for the IJSBA World Finals. Includes transportation aboard a private jet, accommodations, and admission to all races. …Read More

Semi-gratuitous image of an 18-foot skiff cranking down San Francisco Bay in the International Regatta, continuing through Thursday. Ahem, the America’s Cup boats will be faster. Photos by Kimball Livingston In the Inbox, from David Lewis, is a copy of a letter sent Tuesday by one of my favorite environmental organizations—Save the Bay—to San Francisco [...] …Read More

Sixty-two teams of one design sailors from around the country traveled to Annapolis in 2010 for a week best summed up by the Snipe class motto: “Serious Sailing, Serious Fun.” …Read More

What's yellow, white, and blue, and will help a lot of boats integrate older Raymarine SeaTalk1 instruments and sensors into SeaTalkNG/NMEA 2000 networks?  Well, check out the new SeaTalk-STng converter above, which retails for $95 and is also p... …Read More

A 10 year old was skewered by a flying stingray stinger last week, in a freak accident reminiscent of the Steve Irwin death-by-stingray event. File this one under strange but true: according to the Baltimore Sun, the 10 year old boy, Quentin Tokar, was on vacation with his family while fishing on the Avon pier. They caught [...] …Read More