A century ago, boats were the primary mode of long-haul international travel. Today, airplanes have taken center stage as they are safe, inexpensive, and way faster than an ocean liner thanks to their ...

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 ...

More than half of all large boats traveling through Cape Cod Bay failed to comply with speed limits designed to protect critically endangered right whales, according to a new report from Oceana. The ...

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 ...

Vision Marine Technologies has announced its intention to set an absolute world speed record for an electric-powered boat at a UIM-sanctioned kilo run on August 27 during the annual Lake of the Ozarks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A proposed stricter speed limit to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is finding opposition from boaters ...

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 ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has withdrawn its proposal to expand boat speed limits to protect North Atlantic right whales after more than two years of debate and over 90,000 ...

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 ...