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MAILBOAT • FEEDBACK FROM OUR BOATING COMMUNITY

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A Better Boating Experience • THE NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW WILL OFFER IN-WATER TRAINING FOR POWER AND SAIL ALIKE

Art Forms • DOYLE SAILS NEWPORT BUILDS ON A CENTURIES-OLD TRADITION OF FINE SAILMAKING

No Time to be Fuelish • WHEN IT COMES TO THE FUEL FOR YOUR BOAT’S ENGINES, IT’S NOT AS SIMPLE AS THE GAS IN YOUR CAR

What’s the Best Way to Stop BUI? • ONE CAMPAIGN URGES BOATERS TO HAVE A SOBER SKIPPER, ANOTHER WANTS TO BAN BOOZE FROM THE BOAT ENTIRELY

Southport 33 FE • AN UPDATED VERSION OF A VERY POPULAR DESIGN HITS HIGH NOTES WITH FISHERMEN AND FAMILIES

Hinckley Goes Silent • THE MAINE BUILDER PARTNERS WITH TWIN DISC TO CREATE SILENTJET, A DIESEL-ELECTRIC HYBRID THAT ALLOWS A BOAT TO OPERATE SILENTLY AT SLOW SPEEDS

Contender 31 Open

BOLD DIRECTION • A 60-year-old U.S. boat brand reinvents itself with a model designed for offshore adventure, the Wellcraft 355

CURTAIN CALL • A patrol boat turned training vessel that’s educated tens of thousands of young adults since 1946 eases into retirement

Shape of the South • After years of traveling the ICW for the winter, these snowbirds found their happy place in Fernandina Beach and Amelia Island

TAKING IT DOWN A NOTCH • Tad Roberts used to design fast, high-powered boats, but he thinks it’s time for boaters to slow down

Empire City

BOAT WORKS PROPULSION

Thomas Point 34 • A VIRGINIA COUPLE FINDS THEIR DREAM CRUISER ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY, WHERE IT IS MADE BY A CUSTOM BUILDER OF COLD-MOLDED WOODEN BOATS

An Italian Classic