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Destination: Grand Lake, Oklahoma
Its official name is Grand Lake of the Cherokees, but Grand Lake suits it just fine. This is a big body of water — 59,000 surface acres and 1,300 miles of shoreline — meandering through the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in northeast Oklahoma. The lake was created in 1940 with the completion of […] Read More
The Complete Listing of Marinas and Locks on the Inland and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways
Introduction to Wakesurfing
If you think you’re seeing more folks shredding boat wakes than ever before, you’re not mistaken. Sales of watercraft used for board sports rose 14.6 percent last year, outpacing the 8.5 percent increase in overall boat sales, according to research firm Statistical Surveys Inc. One of the newest and fastest growing sports is wakesurfing, in […] Read More
An Apalachicola Holiday
On the dock behind the Apalachicola Maritime Museum, which is stuffed with artifacts from the town’s storied past, I board the Starfish Enterprise, the facility’s 40-foot catamaran. The museum offers a variety of eco-tours, including the three-hour one I’m taking today that travels through the Apalachicola River Basin. Accompanying us is the museum’s founder […] Read More
Corps Opens Nickajack Lock to Public
The Nashville district of the Army Corps of Engineers opened Nickajack Lock to the public on May 23. The lock will be accessible to visitors seven days a week, from 9 a.m. to dusk. The district restricted access to the lock following September 11, 2001, as a security precaution, but district officials now support allowing […] Read More
Marker One M27
The current trend in pontoon boat design is luxury, performance and hybridization — or to put it another way, a blurring of the lines between pontoon boat and high-end runabout. Who better to help set the course than Cobalt Boats? The company has been building superior quality sport boats and cruisers in Neodesha, Kansas, since […] Read More
Scarab 255
This new 25-footer puts an exclamation point on a powerful line of jet boats launched by Scarab over the last 18 months. It’s both the largest and the most powerful in the series, available with twin 150-, twin 200- and twin 250-horsepower options for a quick hole shot, nimble performance, and plenty of oomph to […] Read More
Review: Tiara 44 Coupe
Leon Slikkers, founder of Tiara Yachts, began building fiberglass boats in 1955. That was before nearly anyone else in the industry. In fact, that was before most current boat manufacturers were established. It was even before many of his competitors were born. The Tiara trademark, specifically, emerged in the late 1970s. Over the course of […] Read More
The Complete Listing of Marinas and Locks on the Inland and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways
Dardenne Slough: Hiding in Plain Sight
It’s a great irony that the city of St. Louis, known for over two centuries as a center of riverfront commerce and culture, today has no marinas or docks for pleasure boaters. In fact, if someone described a 6.8-mile stretch of waterway with 10 marinas and 1,167 slips, rack storage for hundreds of boats, […] Read More