Boat tips

With new airports and improved transport links popping up Europe-wide to make travelling ever easier, it’s rare to find destinations truly off the beaten track.

Advanced Eco Tourism and Climate Action tourism operator, Sailaway Port Douglas, this week launched the world’s first all-electric tender and glass bottom boat providing a “whisper quiet” sustainable experience for guests heading to the picturesque Low Isles on the Great Barrier Reef. The 22 passenger ‘eTender’ EV Discovery is 100% electric and is designed to operate as both a transfer tender and a glass bottom boat for coral viewing of the Reef’s rich underwater biosphere.

Electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxis, or eVTOLS, could be an exciting new way to zip around urban landscapes someday and have soaked up billions of investment dollars. But exactly when they go into commercial service and how much rides in the copter-like vehicles will cost isn’t so clear.

A 41-year-old man fell overboard early Friday morning while on a heavy-metal-themed "Headbangers Boat" cruise, according to Miami news outlet WTVJ.

There’s been a rockslide somewhere in the Maurienne Valley, deep in the French Alps. By the time I’m due to set off on an intricately planned, early autumn European rail trip from London to Athens, nearly a week has passed since the incident. My intended path through France, Italy and then on to Greece via sea had relied on a connection from Lyon to Milan passing directly through this region. Now the route is out of action and it could be months before the railway tracks are dug out from the rubble. Initially, I’m irate. En route to the Eurostar terminal at London’s St Pancras at 6.30am, however, I encourage myself to think differently.

Pico—one of nine Portuguese Azorean islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that is dominated by a cone volcano—is about three times the size of the U.S. island of Nantucket, or 10% larger than the U.K. Isle of Wight.

As a flock of noisy jet skiers circle the Statue of Liberty on a warm October evening, Matthew Rhys looks out at the horizon. “There’s a Welsh word, hiraeth, which is loosely translated to ‘a longing for home,’" he says. “But it's something slightly more than that. It's a longing for something that can never be again.”

Tom Robinson, 24, attempted to become the youngest person to row across the Pacific Ocean, but his dream was unfortunately deferred. 

Rescuers failed to free a luxury cruise that got stuck in Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, with a smaller boat on Wednesday.

When planning a 2020 sailing trip in Greece, Bettina Trittmann knew she wanted a cruise that offered less of a carbon footprint than other cruise ships did.

Costa Rica packs a world of adventure into a relatively small area. Limited infrastructure means that getting around can be a challenge, but it’s also one reason that Costa Rica is the wild and wonderful place that it is. 

This blog post will give detailed advice on how to protect your boat from damage during use and storage.

At least 22 people including children died when an overcrowded double-decker tourist boat capsized in an estuary in southern India, authorities said.

Trips for tourism in China during last week’s three-day Dragon Boat Festival climbed 32.3 percent from a year earlier to an estimated 106 million, 12.8 percent above the pre-pandemic level in 2019, the ministry of culture and tourism said.

I love being on water. Mind you, I didn’t say I love being in the water, that’s a completely different story. There’s something about being near a body of water or sailing on it that makes me feel like I can accomplish anything. As my friends can attest, I’m prone to seeking out a sailing tour on most of my vacations. What better way to relax than to bask in the sun, listen to the sounds of the waves, enjoy a drink or two, and meet new people?

For some travelers, trains – not planes – are the preferred mode of transportation.

A new restaurant in the middle of the Hardangerfjord in Norway is wowing — and scaring — TikTok. 

Dream tips like sailing around the Greek Islands or along the Amalfi Coast are only for the rich and famous, right? Not anymore.

As a New York City resident, ordering an Uber to get around town — or whenever I land in a new city — is pretty much second nature at this point. But upon arrival in Athens, Greece, the options in the app were at a whole new level.