FORT RIPLEY — Margo Varney and Mark Paycer know so much about boats it is difficult to picture life without them. From sailboats to pontoons with problems ranging from chips to leaks to damaged ...

BoatArt has spent much of the summer restoring the wooden hull of the 1906 Minnehaha passenger steamboat Sometimes a career can be launched by a simple twist of fate — or by an old guy named Jeep.

For years, boaters have griped about the public boat launches near Lock No. 1 on the Pearl River Navigational Canal. Now, construction has started on a new launch that will sit alongside the existing ...