Afloat

List of boating magazines

A boating magazine is a publication whose main topic is boating, new boat reviews, boat motors and watersports. They can be aimed at different water sports enthusiasts including: cruisers, fishers, power boaters, skiers, sailors, racers, regional boaters, yachters, et cetera.

Afloat (Maupassant)

Afloat is an 1888 story by Guy De Maupassant. Ostensibly it is a logbook of a nine-day cruise along the côte d’Azur. The French original was given illustrations by Édouard Riou who the previous year had illustrated Alexandre Dumas' Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1887), and would also illustrate Maupassant's Un soir (1889). These illustrations, as engraved by the Guillaume brothers, were also included in the English translation by Laura Ensor published by Routledge in 1889. A new translation by Douglas Parmée appeared in 2009.

afloat

Adverb

1. In or into a state of floating.
2. In, or while in, a vessel at sea or on another body of water; at sea.

Adjective

1. Floating.
2. In, or found while in, a vessel at sea or on another body of water.