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Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Ryan Grim |
Miami Vice: The Rise of Florida's Cocaine Economy Miami was the perfect base for large scale drug smuggling. By the mid-1970s Coconut Grove was bursting with hippies, the type of smart, anti-authoritarian troublemakers who make the best smugglers.   |
BusinessWeek
May 16, 2005
Mark Hyman |
Can Cigarette Keep Smokin'? Skip Braver has rebuilt the maker of muscle boats, but competitors abound. |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Small Boats on the Front Lines of Maritime Security As the profile of the U.S. Coast Guard's homeland security mission rises, the role of small boat operations is becoming central to the effort. |
National Defense
April 2013
Dan Parsons |
Small Boats Mean Big Business for Shipbuilders Big ships -- aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines -- get all the glory, but it is the Navy's smallest vessels that could prove pivotal in future conflicts. |
National Defense
October 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Coast Guard Assumes Oversight of Deepwater Program When the Coast Guard's new National Security Cutter, the Bertholf, stopped four boats carrying bales of cocaine 80 miles off the coast of Guatemala in July, it was welcome news for the service's "troubled" Deepwater modernization program. |
National Defense
November 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Coast Guard Expands Joint Anti-Terrorism Training The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing to break ground this month on a new $33 million facility that will significantly improve its ability to train military personnel in maritime security tactics. |
National Defense
October 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Coast Guard May Face Rough Seas as it Takes Control of Deepwater A Justice Department investigation, a scathing 60 Minutes report, unsympathetic lawmakers and a stack of negative inspector general reports have marked the Coast Guard's Integrated Deepwater Systems program the last two years. |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Coast Guard Helicopters Gain Firepower As the agency's missions expand in the nation's war on terrorism, Coast Guard mainstays, such as the HH-60 Jayhawk and HH-65 Dolphin, are being equipped with sniper rifles and machine guns. |
Boating
Kevin Falvey |
War Babies Want a boat built to military specs? No problem -- except for the rocket launchers. |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Underway with the USCG Mellon While helicopter operations are familiar to U.S. Coast Guard vessels, more than just guns are added to the equation when they are armed |
National Defense
June 2014
Dan Parsons |
South China Sea Dispute Shaping Up as Coast Guard Showdown The U.S. Navy risks sparking an international incident by using warships to check China's westward advance. |
National Defense
November 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Coast Guard Team Protects Nation's Busiest Ports The Marine Safety and Security Team 91110 is a small, specially trained unit assigned to help protect Boston from terrorist attack and is one of 13 such organizations established at major ports along the nation's coastlines. |
National Defense
January 2009
Matthew Rusling |
Coast Guard Boosting Cooperation with Military Last summer, as Russian forces lay siege to the nation of Georgia, the Coast Guard cutter Dallas, along with two Navy ships, sailed to the Black Sea to provide relief. |
National Defense
June 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Small U.S. Boatyards Take on Competitive Export Market While major U.S. ship manufacturers have seen a steady decline in exports over the last few decades, some small boatyards are unwilling to give up on foreign defense markets. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2002 |
Offshore Racing's New Look The American Power Boat Association is making major changes in the way it conducts races and does business. |
National Defense
May 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Patrols Keeping Watchful Eye on Potomac The Coast Guard began patrols along the Potomac in the wake of 9/11. The goal was to improve waterborne protection for the nation's capital, said Lt. Frank Del Rosso, the station's commander. |
Popular Mechanics
January 13, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Tragedy in Haiti: The American Response When calamity on the level of Haiti's earthquake strikes, the first U.S. responders bear a heavy load. Outnumbered and overwhelmed, Navy sailors, Coast Guardsmen and professional urban rescue teams will be some of the first to save lives amid the rubble. |
National Defense
November 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Government Lacks Clear Plans to ID Small Vessels Used as Terrorist Weapons In order to decrease the risk of an attack, the government is proposing new security plans. Some suggestions have been met with stiff resistance. |
National Defense
June 2006
David Axe |
Navy's Smallest Fighting Ships Prove Littoral Warfare Concepts The Navy's smallest fighting ships -- 180-ft Cyclone-class patrol boats -- are blazing the way for a future fleet of littoral combat ships. |
National Defense
November 2014
Valerie Insinna |
Navy Receives First New Patrol Boat The Navy is moving forward to refresh its patrol boat fleet, which hasn't been updated since the 1980s. Safe Boats International in August delivered the first of 10 new MK VI boats to the service. |
National Defense
January 2009
Matthew Rusling |
New Patrol Boats: A Must-Win for The Coast Guard The upcoming acquisition of new high-speed patrol boats for the U.S. Coast Guard is viewed as a make-or-break effort that could help the service recover from a string of setbacks in its Deepwater modernization program. |
National Defense
June 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Gas Tankers Prompt Tight Security Escorting LNG tankers in and out of America's harbors is serious business. The Coast Guard provides security to Boston Harbor, among others, for ships carrying fuel from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean amid fear of a USS Cole-type terrorist attack. |
National Defense
June 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Law Enforcement Takes to Boats Around Vital Waterways There is a nationwide trend to place more law enforcement into boats. Coordination among U.S. Coast Guard personnel, state police, first responders and local cops is essential to enhancing security on the nation's waterways. |
National Defense
November 2014
Valerie Insinna |
Shipbuilders Bet on Radical Hull Designs to Defeat Swarming Boat Threat There is a need for a highly, highly stabilized craft that are not large, that are smaller, that can be used to patrol and defend the Navy's ships while they're in troubled waters against high-speed boats. |
National Defense
March 2009
Matthew Rusling |
Military Weapons Adapted for Port Defense Technologies that for decades have been tested and deployed by the U.S. military are now being tailored for use by the Department of Homeland Security to protect the nation's ports. |
National Defense
August 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Mesh of Technologies to Provide Maritime Safety Net While the Department of Homeland Security begins efforts to strengthen the nation's land borders, less publicized work continues on building a so-called virtual wall along U.S. coasts. |
National Defense
August 2007
Grace Jean |
Littoral Combat Ship Troubles: Opportunity for Small Boat Companies? With the cost of the Navy's littoral combat ship skyrocketing and its funding in peril, some say the sea service ought to give serious consideration to acquiring cheaper boats that could complement a reduced fleet. |
Boating
March 2008
Jeff Hemel |
Packing on the Pounds Slow? Sloppy? Sluggish? Maybe your boat should go on a diet. |
National Defense
January 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Security Beat The Marine Corps' chemical-biological response unit will pass their responsibility to The National Guard... Smart Video Surveillance Gets Smarter... Coast Guard Unveils New Security Boat... Survey: Bio Defenses Need Improvement... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2009
Erik Sofge |
Behind the Scenes With a Special Ops Gunboat Crew When the US Special Forces need safe passage along a river, they call on the best-trained boatmen in the world. The author tags along on a live-fire exercise with the elite gunboat crews of Special Boat Team 22. |
Boating
Lenny Rudow |
Booster Shots $500 can buy lots of things that will add a lot of value to your boat. These four ideas will give you the most bang for 500 bucks. |
Boating
March 2007
Phil Scott |
How Does it Feel to Be... We tracked down 10 people who lived through the boating community's good and the bad: Bitten by a shark... A Weeki Wachee mermaid... On a life raft after your boat has sunk... etc. |
National Defense
April 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Brown-Water Navy Begins Hunt for New Riverine Combat Craft Some time after 2010, the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command plans to buy a new small boat that will be tailored to specific Navy needs. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2006
Rich Smith |
Boat Makers See Shoals Recent results should have torpedoed the stock, but Marine Products is floating higher than expected today. |
Wired
May 2006
Carl Hoffman |
Taming the Sea Monster Strong, light, and frighteningly fast, carbon-fiber trimarans are rewriting every record in the books, when they're not breaking up in the middle of the icy Atlantic. |
Boating
July 2008
Eric Colby |
Cigarette 49 Grand Sport With a pair of Mercury Racing HP 850 SCi Dry Sump Six engine/drive packages, Cigarette Racing Team's 49 Grand Sport will be the boat of choice for many players at poker runs. |
National Defense
March 2009
Matthew Rusling |
No Silver Bullet for Thwarting Terrorists Aboard Small Boats Experts agree they will remain a weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given their low cost, ease of deployment and success record. |
Boating
December 2006
Rich Beattie |
Vanished Tales of boaters who've gone out but have never come back. |
Boating
June 2007
Eric Colby |
Fountain 35 Smart weapon: ignition, lift off. Anyone with some go-fast performance could run this boat right up to 90 mph. The boat feels solid and stable. |
Boating
August 2005 |
Project Boat Blog A year's worth of inside information on the publication's summer project boats: The Robalo R260... The SeaStrike 240 CC. |
Inc.
August 2007
Elaine Appleton Grant |
Sails and Services A New England marina is offered for $9.15 million. |
