The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has withdrawn its proposal to expand boat speed limits to protect North Atlantic right whales after more than two years of debate and over 90,000 ...

Environmentalists and fishermen up and down the East Coast, including in North Carolina, are still waiting to hear if federal regulators will order boats as small as 35 feet to hit the brakes during ...

An electric boat just broke the all-time speed record for battery-powered watercraft, reaching a top speed of 109 mph. And while internal combustion-powered boats have long been able to surpass triple ...

QUEBEC CITY, CANADA – This isn’t a cop convention. These are marine mammal biologists, but they do care about speed limits. At the 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, manatee ...

Jaguar already competes in Formula E, but it couldn’t keep its racing activities confined to land. The British automaker teamed up with Vector Racing and Williams Advanced Engineering to set a new ...

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Commissioner Curt Smith wants to relax the rules for boaters, as they relate to protecting manatees Smith calls provision of the current Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act an "archaic" law Slow-speed zones ...

German yacht design and engineering company iYacht GmbH, which specializes in a wide range of boat types from sailing boats to catamarans and houseboats, has been tasked with redesigning an iconic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bill Springer would rather be on a superyacht. And he often is. It’s hard get more “classic New England preppie” than riding ...

Breaking a speed record on land is a remarkable achievement. Breaking a speed record on water ups the ante more than a few notches because it introduces a number of dangerous factors and water adds ...