Boats & Gear

The high-power FCV38 sounder also works for smaller boats.

Focus on schools: Furuno aims for higher resolution with its split-beam sounder

Brian Hagenbuch

Hanging a nylon seine: While the cost of the Plateena and other lightweight fibers can be four times that of nylon, they are stronger and lighter. Dick Shellhorn photo.

Fresh mesh: Technology gives the ancient fishing technique of seining a total overhaul

Paul Molyneaux

Alamarin-Jet looks to expand U.S. market with Omega 37.

A smaller big jet: Alamarin-Jet adds to its Omega line

Brian Hagenbuch

Sinepuxent Boatworks in Berlin, Md., delivered this 22-foot glass-over-wood skiff to a Chestertown, Md., waterman to trotline for blue crabs and to harvest catfish. Sinepuxent Boatworks photo.

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Chicken grow-out house doubles as a boatshop; Cecil Robbins 29 in for repairs at Virginia yard

Larry Chowning

Peregrine Boats’ new Bristol Bay gillnetter features a net reel that travels bow to stern in the tracks on the deck. Peregrine Boats photo.

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A gillnetter with a very different wheelhouse; good-bye hatches, hello manholes

Michael Crowley

The Aleutian Endurance. Buck and Ann Fisheries photo.

Poised for pots: A new skipper and new launch head for the Aleutian pot cod fishery

Paul Molyneaux

The Oxe 150- and 200-hp diesel outboards are joined by the new Tier III-approved Oxe 300 diesel outboard, now available in the United States. Oxe Marine photo.

Tour de force: Expanded marine engine lineups, concessions on tier requirements

Paul Molyneaux

Vetus launches two small-boat electric systems.

Vetus re-enters electric market: A pioneer of electric boating is back

Brian Hagenbuch

This Georgia-built Carolina Skiff 238 DLV is being used in Virginia’s public hand dredge fishery on the Rappahannock River by watermen Chris Belvin and Michael Shackelford. Larry Chowning photo.

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Virginia watermen maintain their own small fleet; watershed event for Chesapeake museum boatshop

Larry Chowning

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Boat of the Month: Cap’n Lake

Larry Chowning

Holland’s Boat Shop is building this 32-foot tuna boat with a 650-hp Cat for a Maine fisherman. Jon Johansen photo.

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Rebuild of well-known race boat is put on hold; boatyard says 50 feet is a good cutoff point

Michael Crowley