Over the last couple of years I have written a good bit about changing demographics and how they are affecting our industry today, tomorrow and 10 or more years from now. (Read More…)

Sometimes the simplest question yields the most revealing answer. Near the end of an hour-plus-long interview with successful marina entrepreneur Jack Brewer, we asked him what he believed was his company’s greatest asset. (Read More…)

Capt. Jim Nunes is one of the last of the old-time Cuttyhunk, Mass., fishing guides. (Read More…)

It was one of those special TV moments. Ad agency creative director Don Draper is making a pitch to two Kodak executives about a different way to position the company’s new slide wheel, which Draper is about to dub the “carousel.” (Read More…)

Lou Sandoval is a passionate sailor and co-founder/co-owner of Karma Yacht Sales, a successful Beneteau dealership on Lake Michigan in Chicago. He is also very active in the industry. (Read More…)

The headlines accompanying the release of the Coast Guard’s 2012 Recreational Boating Statistics earlier this week correctly trumpeted the decrease in boating deaths, injuries and accidents. That’s good news. (Read More…)

On the eve of the American Boating Congress, the Recreational Boating Leadership Council met for five hours on Tuesday to chart progress and hear from the six committees working on key components of the industry’s 10-year growth plan. (Read More…)

I read a story over the weekend about how new technology is reopening natural gas fields under the stormy North Sea. Sections of the ocean floor that a decade ago companies turned their backs on as either tapped out or just too difficult to work are seeing a healthy revival, according to The Wall Street Journal. (Read More…)

New-boat sales have cooled during a chilly spring, but experts think the economy will weather the sequester and builders and dealers are upbeat. (Read More…)

I was walking past a row of boats on the hard at the Palm Beach International Boat Show in March when I did a double take over something to my left. I stopped and circled back. Pretty boat? Pretty girl? (Read More…)