New York Harbor Marina joins IGY's global portfolio of world-class marinas

Island Global Yachting (IGY), one of the world’s premier owners, developers and managers of luxury marinas and yachting lifestyle destinations, has announced the addition of Newport Yacht Club & Marina to their global collection of marinas. 

Boat owners are abandoning ship

Gary Santos, a Mount Pleasant, S.C., councilman, checks a state notice on a forsaken sailboat. They often sandpaper over the names and file off the registry numbers, doing their best to render the boats, and themselves, untraceable. Then they casually ditch the vessels in the middle of busy harbors, beach them at low tide on the banks of creeks or occasionally scuttle them outright.

City puts marina in drydock

The borough’s oldest marina has been ordered closed for safety reasons, leading members of the boat club harbored there to fear the club will be gone forever.

Broad Channel marina owner guilty of dumping sewage, faces jail

A Queens Marina owner is facing four years in jail for dumping raw sewage into Jamaica Bay.

BOAT OWNERS: READ THE FINE PRINT

BEFORE you sign your annual slip contract with your marina this year, make sure you read the fine print, or it could cost you.

Boaters Can Help Keep Harbor Waters Clean

Boaters in New York City now have available to them free maps of the more than 25 boat pumpout stations located throughout New York Harbor.