Big center-console boats—models ranging from 35 to more than 40 feet in length—are ­taking over in warm places such as Florida where cabins seem superfluous. With a larger center-­console comes lots ...

Contender Boats founder and ­president Joe Neber started building boats in 1984 with the singular focus to build the toughest, most ­competitive ­semicustom center-consoles on the ­market. His vessels ...

It was an ordinary spring Saturday on the western edge of San Francisco -- a bit windy for May, but otherwise sunny. Kids and their parents were lining up to see the lions being fed at the zoo, ...