From Southern California to Maine, the foundering economy, high fuel prices and poor fishing have driven boat owners to abandon perhaps thousands of vessels on the waterfront, where they are beginning to break up and sink, leaking oil and other pollutants.
The New York Police Department has unveiled two high-tech patrol boats that can sniff out radiological or nuclear threats from miles away.
Beijing may have the 2008 Summer Olympics, but New York has the 18th annual dragon boat festival.
The four dozen men in loincloths stopped repeatedly to toss the new boat into the air as they carried it through their village to shore.
Forty boats sped off silently Monday in what is billed as the world's largest race for solar powered watercraft. High winds capsized several boats during a time trial qualifying round Sunday, and technical problems with the launching crane pushed back Monday's start. But all 40 qualifiers finally departed under fair skies, spokeswoman Christel Pieper of the Frisian Solar Challenge said.
Jamaica Bay is located within the only national park in New York City, a place where herring gulls pirouette overhead, Canada geese sail in naval formation in quiet coves and harbor seals frolic on the shoreline.
A sixth person died of injuries suffered when a fishing trawler collided with an overcrowded boat in Sydney Harbor, authorities said Friday.
A U.S. Navy ship encountered a small Iranian high-speed boat in the central Persian Gulf and warned it away by firing a flare, the Pentagon said Friday.
Russia has released six more Japanese fishermen who had been detained earlier this month after their boats were seized in disputed waters, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Russia released a detained Japanese fishing boat captain Thursday because of a chronic medical problem, a week after his boat and three others were seized in waters claimed by both countries, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.
Japan said Thursday that Russia seized four Japanese fishing boats in disputed waters between the two countries, calling the detention unacceptable and demanding an explanation from Moscow.
Don Yost, harbormaster in Coos Bay for the past 18 years, was handed a list of seven salmon fishermen and instructed to seize their boats because they had fallen months behind in paying their mooring fees.
Can concrete float? Twenty-three student teams from around the country are competing in a concrete canoe competition to find out.
It's whatever floats your boat — even if it's a concrete canoe. Engineering students at the University of Nevada, Reno shoved 217 pounds of it into the lake at Sparks Marina Park, then took turns paddling it across the water. Floating concrete?
Pirates of the Caribbean, one of Disney's most popular rides, will get a makeover.
Firing shots at a luxury cruise ship, taking a super tanker hostage: the papers are full of Somalia's audacious pirates. But the local fishermen grab fewer headlines -- and have a stricken existence.
It's pretty much impossible to look at a beautiful houseboat and not imagine yourself leaving everything behind to start a new life in an exotic port, battling pirates from time to time.That last part may only be in our daydreams, but the point is, living on the water could be aw …
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Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft
Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, has died.
It's destined to be the world's largest cruise ship—when launched next year, Royal Caribbean's US$1.24 billion Project Genesis will be 1,180 feet long, and carry 5400 passengers (6,400 at a pinch).
So, after all this time we now know it was the rivets and not the iceberg. Or maybe it was Global warming. Or.....
A group on innovative Women had a great idea. Topless fishing charters. Once out in the ocean, in International waters, the bikini clad women removed the tops of their bathing suits. Well...someone complained. It figures.
The boat has a wide deck wherein you can relax with your family and friends, and you can even take a sun bath. It gives you both exercise and when done with that, you have the option of solar panel energy that can be used.
A good explanation and comparison of the Iranian-Speedboat incident and how it's related to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Very well thought out analysis.
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The United States protested formally to the Iranian government on Thursday over an incident in which Iranian speedboats confronted U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said.
What's impressive about Captain Konrad's story however, is not the spread of flat panel displays illuminating the bridge; it's his off duty hobby that's intriguing.
One way of making sure you have a pleasant fishing trip is to choose the best necessary tools a fisherman needs. Fishing reels are very important for that matter
Speed boats are for the adventurous and dynamic spirit that is not afraid to challenge the limits
For 43 years, the happy smiley people at Disneyland have been telling us it's a small world after all. But now, finally, reality has set in.
If there's a sadder commentary on the state of American society, we can't think of it -- we've grown so fat we sink the boats of It's A Small World.
Need a wonderful very fast, very expensive 85 feet long speedboat this is capable of up to 40 knots for some fall cruising in Puget Sound ? We have one, all expense paid. Well paid for by our Tax dollar that is.....
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One day a year, the tugboat industry dresses up its hardworking vessels and parades them before judges, showing off fresh paint jobs, displaying horsepower in nose-to-nose pushing competitions and a one-mile sprint up the Hudson.
I make no bones about the fact that I'll take any excuse to see my daughter, and an excuse the other day to not only see her, but to go to a big hunting/fishing/outdoor outfitting store, oh happy day! One of the things that they have that really interests me is a pedal boat.
FISHERFOLK along Hellshire Beach in Portmore, St Catherine, are once again counting their losses after Hurricane Dean wrecked several stalls, boats and homes along the coastline on Sunday.