Which life raft is best? As with any good lifesaving device, you have to hope you’ll never need a life raft. But whether your watercraft is going down or you find your home flooded in the middle of a ...

After 30 years of earning paychecks on the water, I’ve realized that Murphy’s law is, well, overly optimistic: If something can go wrong, it will. And when it does, it’s ­usually at the worst possible ...