Humans have been getting from one place to another by boat ever since our ancestors began using handheld tools to carve canoe-like vessels way back when. (Fun fact: We’re talking the Mesolithic Era, ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about the "Top Ten List of Most Popular Boat Names," as charted by Boat U.S., the nation's largest recreational boat owners association. Boat U.S. does this "David ...

One of the many fun things about boats is that they have names. This makes them unique among the possessions in our lives. Houses don’t have names, bicycles don’t have names, most cars don’t have ...

Hundreds of boats set sail from Chicago on Friday for the annual Race to Mackinac. But if you've ever stopped to look at the names of some of the boats, you may have wondered about the meaning behind ...